Usefulness of a breath-holding acquisition method in PET/CT for pulmonary lesions

Annals of Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 65-71

  Yamaguchi, Toshiaki ^b   Ueda, Osamu ^a   Hara, Hideyuki ^a   Sakai, Hiroto ^a   Kida, Tohru ^a   Suzuki, Kayo ^a   Adachi, Shuji ^a   Ishii, Kazunari ^b  

^a HYOGO CANCER CENTER   (Japan)

^b Hyogo Brain and Heart Center   (Japan)

Author keywords

Breath holding PET (BH PET); Free breathing PET (FB PET); PET CT; SUVmax; Translation

Indexed keywords

FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BREATH HOLDING; BREATHING MECHANICS; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAPHRAGM; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; LUNG CANCER; LUNG TUMOR; MALE; PHANTOM; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIODIAGNOSIS; SIMULATION; TUMOR DIAGNOSIS;

AGED, 80 AND OVER; ARTIFACTS; FEMALE; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F18; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RESPIRATORY MECHANICS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SUBTRACTION TECHNIQUE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 60349102915     PISSN: 09147187     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12149-008-0206-4     Document Type: Article

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