PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Ashish Kumar Jha
AU  - Nilendu C. Purandare
AU  - Venkatesh Rangarajan
TI  - An Unusual Cause of the Ring Artifact on Transaxial CT Images
AID  - 10.2967/jnmt.115.165175
DP  - 2016 Sep 01
TA  - Journal of Nuclear Medicine Technology
PG  - 214--215
VI  - 44
IP  - 3
4099  - http://tech.snmjournals.org/content/44/3/214.short
4100  - http://tech.snmjournals.org/content/44/3/214.full
SO  - J. Nucl. Med. Technol.2016 Sep 01; 44
AB  - Artifacts and image quality are two sides of the same coin. The ring artifact is scanner-based and caused mainly by either a miscalibrated element or a defective element of a detector row. We describe a rare cause of the ring artifact that appeared on a transaxial CT image because of a loose electronic contact. To our knowledge, this particular cause of the ring artifact has not been described in literature.