The reduction of artifacts due to metal hip implants in CT-attenuation corrected PET images from hybrid PET/CT scanners

Medical and Biological Engineering and Computing

Volumn 45, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 553-562

  Kennedy, John A ^a   Israel, Ora ^a,b   Frenkel, Alex ^b   Bar Shalom, Rachel ^a,b   Azhari, Haim ^a  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

^b Department of Nuclear Medicine ^*  (Israel)

Author keywords

Artifact; Attenuation correction; Hip prosthesis; PET CT

Indexed keywords

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; HIP PROSTHESES; MEDICAL IMAGING; STAINLESS STEEL;

ARTIFACT REDUCTION ALGORITHM; ATTENUATION CORRECTION;

IMPLANTS (SURGICAL);

FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18; STAINLESS STEEL;

ARTICLE; ARTIFACT REDUCTION; BAYES THEOREM; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; HIP PROSTHESIS; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; METAL IMPLANTATION; PHANTOM; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PROSTHESIS MATERIAL; RADIATION ATTENUATION; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

ARTIFACTS; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F18; HIP JOINT; HIP PROSTHESIS; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PROSTHESIS DESIGN; STAINLESS STEEL; SUBTRACTION TECHNIQUE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 34250170177     PISSN: 01400118     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11517-007-0188-8     Document Type: Article

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