Multi-modality nuclear medicine imaging: Artefacts, pitfalls and recommendations

Cancer Imaging

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 77-83

  van Dalem, Jorn A ^a   Vogel, Wouter V ^a   Corstens, Frans H M ^a   Oyen, Win J G ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Artefacts; Multi modality imaging; PET CT; Pitfalls; Recommendations

Indexed keywords

FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18; GALLIUM 68; GERMANIUM; PENTETREOTIDE IN 111;

ARTIFACT; ARTIFACT REDUCTION; BODY MOVEMENT; BREATH HOLDING; BREATHING MECHANICS; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER STAGING; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; DIGITAL IMAGING AND COMMUNICATIONS IN MEDICINE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEAR MEDICINE; ONCOLOGY; PATIENT CARE; PICTURE ARCHIVING AND COMMUNICATION SYSTEM; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REVIEW; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; TREATMENT PLANNING; TUMOR LOCALIZATION; METHODOLOGY; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); NEOPLASM; RADIOGRAPHY; SCINTISCANNING;

ARTIFACTS; HUMANS; MOVEMENT; NEOPLASMS; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 34250203626     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14707330     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1102/1470-7330.2007.0014     Document Type: Review

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