Impact of metal artefacts due to EEG electrodes in brain PET/CT imaging

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 53, Issue 16, 2008, Pages 4417-4429

  Lemmens, Catherine ^a   Montandon, Marie Louise ^b   Nuyts, Johan ^a   Ratib, Osman ^b   Dupont, Patrick ^a,c   Zaidi, Habib ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b GENEVA UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRODES; METALLIZING; METALS;

ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM (EEG); VISUAL QUALITIES;

ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY;

FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; ARTIFACT REDUCTION; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; ELECTRODE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; PHANTOM; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIODIAGNOSIS;

ARTIFACTS; BRAIN; ELECTRODES, IMPLANTED; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY; HUMANS; METALS; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 51849134600     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/53/16/013     Document Type: Article

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