Innovations in PET/CT

Quarterly Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging

Volumn 56, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 268-279

  Levin Klausen, T ^a   Hogild Keller S ^a   Vinter Olesen, O ^a   Aznar, M ^a   Andersen, F L ^a  

^a University of Copenhagen   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Image processing, computer assisted; Motion; Positron emission tomography

Indexed keywords

BISMUTH DERIVATIVE; BROMINE DERIVATIVE; CARBON 11; CESIUM; FLUORINE 18; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18; GALLIUM 68; LANTHANUM; LUTETIUM; NITROGEN 13; ORGANOSILICON DERIVATIVE; OXYGEN 15; RUBIDIUM 82; SODIUM IODIDE;

BODY MOVEMENT; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CARDIAC GATED IMAGING; CARDIOTOXICITY; COMPUTER ASSISTED EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; DIODE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HEAD AND NECK TUMOR; HEAD MOVEMENT; HEART CYCLE; HEART MOVEMENT; HODGKIN DISEASE; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMMOBILIZATION; LUNG CANCER; LUNG TOXICITY; MOTION ANALYSIS SYSTEM; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR ACCIDENT; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRESCRIPTION; RADIATION ATTENUATION; RADIATION DETECTOR; RESPIRATORY GATED IMAGING; REVIEW; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; TIME OF FLIGHT POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; TOOTH FILLING; TREATMENT PLANNING;

ARTIFACTS; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MOVEMENT; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY AND COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 84865331295     PISSN: 18244785     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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