Reducing bladder artifacts in clinical pelvic SPECT images

Journal of Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 45, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 1309-1314

  Wells, R Glenn ^a,b,c,f   Farncombe, Troy ^d   Chang, Edward ^e   Nicholson, R Larry ^a,b,c  

^a ST JOSEPH S HEALTH CENTRE   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^c LAWSON HEALTH RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^d MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^e Hotel Dieu Grace Hospital Windsor   (Canada)

^f ST JOSEPH S HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Attenuation correction; Bladder artifact; Bone SPECT; Dynamic SPECT

Indexed keywords

GADOLINIUM 153; MEDRONATE TECHNETIUM TC 99M;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; ATTENUATION; BLADDER; BONE SCINTISCANNING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG UPTAKE; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; MALE; PELVIC GIRDLE; PELVIS PAIN SYNDROME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; AGED; ALGORITHM; ARTIFACT; BONE NECROSIS; BONE TUMOR; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; QUALITY CONTROL; REPRODUCIBILITY; SCINTISCANNING; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; VALIDATION STUDY;

ADULT; AGED; ALGORITHMS; ARTIFACTS; BONE NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OSTEONECROSIS; PELVIC BONES; QUALITY CONTROL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; URINARY BLADDER;

EID: 4544273330     PISSN: 01615505     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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