Scatter limitation to correct for arm movement in PET/CT

Jason Callahan; David Binns; Timothy Deller; Rodney J. Hicks

doi:10.1097/RLU.0b013e3182531cdf

Scatter limitation to correct for arm movement in PET/CT

Jason Callahan, David Binns, Timothy Deller, Rodney J. Hicks

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

4 Scopus citations

Abstract

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 of scatter in these areas creating significant reconstruction artifacts. This case presents an example of a novel processing algorithm known as "scatter limitation" that corrects the overestimation of scatter caused by arm movement.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	786-787
Number of pages	2
Journal	Clinical Nuclear Medicine
Volume	37
Issue number	8
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1097/RLU.0b013e3182531cdf
State	Published - Aug 2012
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

PET artifact
arm movement
scatter limitation

Access to Document

10.1097/RLU.0b013e3182531cdf

Cite this

@article{a21c448e516e47639fabde00563bf78b,

title = "Scatter limitation to correct for arm movement in PET/CT",

abstract = "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 of scatter in these areas creating significant reconstruction artifacts. This case presents an example of a novel processing algorithm known as {"}scatter limitation{"} that corrects the overestimation of scatter caused by arm movement.",

keywords = "PET artifact, arm movement, scatter limitation",

author = "Jason Callahan and David Binns and Timothy Deller and Hicks, {Rodney J.}",

year = "2012",

month = aug,

doi = "10.1097/RLU.0b013e3182531cdf",

language = "English",

volume = "37",

pages = "786--787",

journal = "Clinical Nuclear Medicine",

issn = "0363-9762",

publisher = "Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins",

number = "8",

}

TY - JOUR

T1 - Scatter limitation to correct for arm movement in PET/CT

AU - Callahan, Jason

AU - Binns, David

AU - Deller, Timothy

AU - Hicks, Rodney J.

PY - 2012/8

Y1 - 2012/8

N2 - 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 of scatter in these areas creating significant reconstruction artifacts. This case presents an example of a novel processing algorithm known as "scatter limitation" that corrects the overestimation of scatter caused by arm movement.

AB - 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 of scatter in these areas creating significant reconstruction artifacts. This case presents an example of a novel processing algorithm known as "scatter limitation" that corrects the overestimation of scatter caused by arm movement.

KW - PET artifact

KW - arm movement

KW - scatter limitation

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84863867390&partnerID=8YFLogxK

U2 - 10.1097/RLU.0b013e3182531cdf

DO - 10.1097/RLU.0b013e3182531cdf

M3 - Article

C2 - 22785512

AN - SCOPUS:84863867390

SN - 0363-9762

VL - 37

SP - 786

EP - 787

JO - Clinical Nuclear Medicine

JF - Clinical Nuclear Medicine

IS - 8

ER -

Scatter limitation to correct for arm movement in PET/CT

Abstract

Keywords

Access to Document

Other files and links

Fingerprint

Cite this