Comparison of a free-breathing CT and an expiratory breath-hold CT with regard to spatial alignment of amplitude-based respiratory-gated PET and CT images

Journal of Nuclear Medicine Technology

Volumn 42, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 269-273

  van der Vos, Charlotte S ^a,b   Grootjans, Willem ^a   Meeuwis, Antoi P W ^a   Slump, Cornelis H ^b   Oyen, Wim J G ^a   de Geus Oei, Lioe Fee F ^a,b   Visser, Eric P ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Amplitude based optimal respiratory gating; Breath hold CT; Lung tumors; Spatial alignment; Standardized uptake value

Indexed keywords

FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18;

AGED; ARTICLE; BREATH HOLDING; BREATHING; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LUNG LESION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PET SCANNER; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RESPIRATORY GATED IMAGING; WHOLE BODY CT; WHOLE BODY PET; ARTIFACT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EXHALATION; IMAGE PROCESSING; LUNG TUMOR; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; RADIOGRAPHY; SCINTISCANNING;

AGED; ARTIFACTS; BREATH HOLDING; EXHALATION; FEMALE; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F18; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RESPIRATION; RESPIRATORY-GATED IMAGING TECHNIQUES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84916595240     PISSN: 00914916     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2967/jnmt.114.145748     Document Type: Article

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