Sources of attenuation-correction artefacts in cardiac PET/CT and SPECT/CT

European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging

Volumn 35, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1117-1123

  McQuaid, Sarah J ^a   Hutton, Brian F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Artefacts; Attenuation correction; Hybrid imaging; Myocardial perfusion imaging; Respiratory motion

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; ATTENUATION; BREATHING; BREATHING PATTERN; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; LUNG VOLUME; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY;

ARTIFACTS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HEART; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RESPIRATORY MECHANICS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 43749118153     PISSN: 16197070     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00259-008-0718-0     Document Type: Article

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