Abstract
There are several artifacts encountered in positron emission tomography/computed tomographic
(PET/CT) imaging, including attenuation correction (AC) artifacts associated with
using CT for AC. Several artifacts can mimic a 2-deoxy-2-[18F] fluoro-d-glucose (FDG) avid malignant lesions and therefore recognition of these artifacts
is clinically relevant. Our goal was to identify and characterize these artifacts
and also discuss some protocol variables that may affect image quality in PET/CT.
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Article info
Publication history
Published online: May 26, 2010
Accepted:
February 21,
2010
Received:
December 10,
2009
Footnotes
☆Work for this article was performed at: Hillman Cancer Center, UPMC Department of Radiology.
☆☆Funding received: NIH Grant Number R21 EB002622, National Cancer Institute Grant Number P30 CA47904.
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