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How to correct for arm movement in PET/CT

Published 24 August 2012 | Article by Clinical Nuclear Medicine 2012 | Tags: scatter-limitation, arm-movement, pet-artifact


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How to correct for arm movement in PET/CT

A commonly seen artifact in PET/CT scanning is areas of “washed out” activity on the reconstructed PET scan due to arm movement after the CT scan. When a patient moves his/her arms after the CT scan, there are areas of activity outside the mask defined by the CT. This leads to an overestimation...


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