Metal artifact reduction strategies for improved attenuation correction in hybrid PET/CT imaging

Medical Physics

Volumn 39, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 3343-3360

  Abdoli, Mehrsima ^a   Dierckx, Rudi A J O ^a   Zaidi, Habib ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b GENEVA UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

attenuation correction; metal artifact reduction; metal artifacts; PET CT; x ray CT

Indexed keywords

METALS; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; TRACERS; X RAYS;

ACCURATE QUANTIFICATIONS; ATTENUATION CORRECTION; CT-BASED ATTENUATION CORRECTIONS; METAL ARTIFACT REDUCTION; METAL ARTIFACTS; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY (PET); X-RAY COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; X-RAY CT;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 84863513423     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.4709599     Document Type: Review

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