High-density materials do not always induce artifacts on PET/CT: What is responsible for the difference?

Nuclear Medicine Communications

Volumn 28, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 495-499

  Kaneta, Tomohiro ^a   Takanami, Kentaro ^a   Wakayama, Yuji ^a   Sato, Akihiro ^b   Higano, Shuichi ^b   Fukuda, Hiroshi ^b   Yamada, Shogo ^c   Takahashi, Shoki ^c  

^a Tohoku University   (Japan)

^b TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c TOHOKU UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Artifact; Attenuation correction; PET CT

Indexed keywords

FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18;

ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; ARTIFICIAL ORGAN; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; COMPUTER ASSISTED EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PACEMAKER; PHANTOM;

ANIMALS; ARTIFACTS; HUMANS; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 34247643169     PISSN: 01433636     EISSN: 14735628     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MNM.0b013e3281744468     Document Type: Article

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