The pinwheel sign: Artifact from head rotation during SPECT acquisition for dopamine transporter imaging

Journal of Nuclear Medicine Technology

Volumn 42, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 75-76

  Janicek, Amy K ^a   Avery, Ryan J ^a   Kuo, Phillip H ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

Artifact; DAT scan; Neurology; Parkinson's disease; Quality assurance; SPECT

Indexed keywords

DOPAMINE TRANSPORTER;

AGED; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; ASPERGER SYNDROME; BASAL GANGLION; CASE REPORT; CORPUS STRIATUM; FOLLOW UP; HEAD MOVEMENT; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; PARKINSON DISEASE; PUTAMEN; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY;

ARTIFACT; DAT SCAN; NEUROLOGY; PARKINSON'S DISEASE; QUALITY ASSURANCE; SPECT;

AGED; ARTIFACTS; DOPAMINE PLASMA MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; HEAD; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MOVEMENT; PARKINSON DISEASE; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 84898899429     PISSN: 00914916     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2967/jnmt.113.126078     Document Type: Article

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