Qualitative and quantitative assessment of metal artifacts arising from implantable cardiac pacing devices in oncological PET/CT studies: A phantom study

Molecular Imaging and Biology

Volumn 13, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1077-1087

  Ay, Mohammad R ^a,b,c,f   Mehranian, Abolfazl ^a,b   Abdoli, Mehrsima ^d   Ghafarian, Pardis ^b,e   Zaidi, Habib ^d,f,g  

^a TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^c TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^e SHAHID BEHESHTI UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^f UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

^g UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Attenuation correction; Defibrillator; Metal artifact reduction; Misalignment; Pacemaker; PET CT

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ARTIFACT REDUCTION; CARDIAC RESYNCHRONIZATION THERAPY DEVICE; COMPUTER ASSISTED EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEFIBRILLATOR; HEART ASSIST DEVICE; HEART PACING; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; PACEMAKER ELECTRODE; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFACTS; BENZOFURANS; CARDIAC RESYNCHRONIZATION THERAPY; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; METALS; NEOPLASMS; PACEMAKER, ARTIFICIAL; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY AND COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PROSTHESES AND IMPLANTS;

EID: 84855675037     PISSN: 15361632     EISSN: 18602002     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11307-010-0467-x     Document Type: Article

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