PET/CT image fusion error due to urinary bladder filling changes: Consequence and correction

Annals of Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 23, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 739-744

  Heiba, Sherif I ^a   Raphael, Barbara ^b   Castellon, Ivan ^b   Altinyay, Erkan ^b   Sandella, Nick ^b   Rosen, Gerald ^b   Abdel Dayem, Hussein M ^b  

^a MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b ST VINCENT S COMPREHENSIVE CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

18FDG; Image fusion; PET CT; Urinary bladder

Indexed keywords

DIATRIZOATE; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18;

ADULT; AGED; ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; BLADDER FILLING; BLADDER WALL; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; KIDNEY PELVIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ADMINISTRATION, ORAL; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ARTIFACTS; CONTRAST MEDIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ORGAN SIZE; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; URINARY BLADDER; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 70350187053     PISSN: 09147187     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12149-009-0304-y     Document Type: Article

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