Accuracy of amplitude-based respiratory gating for PET/CT in irregular respirations

Annals of Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 28, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 770-779

  Tsutsui, Yuji ^a   Kidera, Daisuke ^b   Taniguchi, Takafumi ^b   Akamatsu, Go ^b   Komiya, Isao ^a   Umezu, Yoshiyuki ^a   Kitamura, Yoshiyuki ^b   Baba, Shingo ^b   Sasaki, Masayuki ^b  

^a KYUSHU UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Amplitude based gating; PET CT; Phase based gating; Respiratory gating

Indexed keywords

FLUORINE 18; FLUORINE;

ARTICLE; BREATHING; BREATHING MECHANICS; BREATHING PATTERN; COMPUTER ASSISTED EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGING PHANTOM; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; PET-CT SCANNER; RADIOACTIVITY; RESPIRATORY GATED IMAGING; WAVEFORM; ARTIFACT; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PROCEDURES; REPRODUCIBILITY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ARTIFACTS; FLUORINE RADIOISOTOPES; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MOVEMENT; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RESPIRATION; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84919873943     PISSN: 09147187     EISSN: 18646433     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12149-014-0870-5     Document Type: Article

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