Enhancing Cardiac PET by Motion Correction Techniques

Current Cardiology Reports

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2017, Pages

  Rubeaux, Mathieu ^a   Doris, Mhairi K ^a,b   Alessio, Adam ^c   Slomka, Piotr J ^a,d  

^a CEDARS SINAI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cardiac PET imaging; Coronary imaging; Gated PET; PET motion correction

Indexed keywords

ARTIFACT; ATTENUATION; CARDIAC GATED IMAGING; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CLINICAL STUDY; COMPENSATION; ERROR; HEART; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MOTION; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RESPIRATORY GATED IMAGING; ALGORITHM; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; IMAGE PROCESSING; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY-COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PROCEDURES;

ALGORITHMS; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; HEART; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MOTION; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 85011977359     PISSN: 15233782     EISSN: 15343170     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11886-017-0825-2     Document Type: Review

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