Comparison of low-pitch and respiratory-averaged CT protocols for attenuation correction of cardiac PET studies

Medical Physics

Volumn 36, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1618-1623

  Nye, Jonathon A ^a   Hamill, James ^b   Tudorascu, Dana ^a   Carew, John ^a,c   Esteves, Fabio ^a   Votaw, John R ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b SIEMENS CORPORATE RESEARCH   (United States)

^c EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Attenuation correction; Cardiac PET CT; Positron emission tomography

Indexed keywords

HEART; PHOTONS; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; TRANSMISSIONS;

ATTENUATION CORRECTION; CARDIAC PET/CT; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; EMISSION DATA; FREE BREATHING; PERFUSION STUDIES; RESPIRATORY MOTIONS; TRANSMISSION DATA;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

RUBIDIUM 82;

ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; BODY WEIGHT; BREATHING; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEART MUSCLE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PHOTON; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION ATTENUATION; RADIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ROTATION; SPIRAL COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; STARVATION; STRESS; STUDENT T TEST;

EID: 65449166399     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3112362     Document Type: Article

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