Management of respiratory motion in PET/computed tomography: The state of the art

Nuclear Medicine Communications

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 113-122

  Pépin, Audrey ^a   Daouk, Joël ^b   Bailly, Pascal ^a   Hapdey, Sébastien ^c,d   Meyer, Marc Etienne ^a,b  

^a AMIENS UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE PICARDIE JULES VERNE   (France)

^c ROUEN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (France)

^d UNIVERSITÉ DE ROUEN   (France)

Author keywords

compensation; correction; PET computed tomography; respiratory motion; tracking

Indexed keywords

FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18;

BREATH HOLDING; BREATHING MECHANICS; BREATHING PATTERN; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COMPUTER ASSISTED EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; HEAD MOVEMENT; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; LUNG VOLUME; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RADIOLOGY PHANTOM; RESPIRATORY GATED IMAGING; REVIEW; SIGNAL DETECTION; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO;

HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MOVEMENT; MULTIMODAL IMAGING; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RESPIRATION; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84891541970     PISSN: 01433636     EISSN: 14735628     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MNM.0000000000000048     Document Type: Review

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