Comparison of a free-breathing CT and an expiratory breath-hold CT with regard to spatial alignment of amplitude-based respiratory-gated PET and CT images

CS van der Vos, W Grootjans… - Journal of Nuclear …, 2014 - Soc Nuclear Med
Respiratory motion during PET has a significant effect on the quantification of radiotracer
uptake in PET images. Even when respiratory motion is considered using PET gating …

Improving the spatial alignment in PET/CT using amplitude-based respiration-gated PET and respiration-triggered CT

CS van der Vos, W Grootjans… - Journal of Nuclear …, 2015 - Soc Nuclear Med
Respiratory motion during PET can cause inaccuracies in the quantification of radiotracer
uptake, which negatively affects PET-guided radiotherapy planning. Quantitative accuracy …

Investigation of phase and amplitude respiratory gating for whole-body FDG-PET with different respiratory waveform patterns

W Qi, S Ponce, T Xia, M Teshigwara, T Kawano… - 2016 - Soc Nuclear Med
1892 Objectives Respiratory motion is known to blur tumor in thorax and abdomen in whole-
body PET imaging, and thus reduce tumor's standard-uptake-value (SUV). To alleviate this …

Initial clinical results for breath-hold CT-based processing of respiratory-gated PET acquisitions

L Fin, J Daouk, J Morvan, P Bailly, I El Esper… - European journal of …, 2008 - Springer
Purpose Respiratory motion causes uptake in positron emission tomography (PET) images
of chest structures to spread out and misregister with the CT images. This misregistration …

Implementation of an automated respiratory amplitude gating technique for PET/CT: clinical evaluation

G Chang, T Chang, T Pan, JW Clark… - Journal of Nuclear …, 2010 - Soc Nuclear Med
Amplitude gating techniques have recently been shown to be better at suppressing
respiratory motion artifacts than phase gating. However, most commercial PET/CT scanners …

Deep-inspiration breath-hold PET/CT versus free breathing PET/CT and respiratory gating PET for reference: evaluation in 95 patients with lung cancer

T Kawano, E Ohtake, T Inoue - Annals of nuclear medicine, 2011 - Springer
Objective The objective of this study was to define the factors that correlate with differences
in maximum standardized uptake value (SUV max) in deep-inspiration breath-hold (DIBH) …

Reduction of respiratory motion artifacts in PET imaging of lung cancer by respiratory correlated dynamic PET: methodology and comparison with respiratory gated …

SA Nehmeh, YE Erdi, KE Rosenzweig… - Journal of Nuclear …, 2003 - Soc Nuclear Med
This study proposes a new method to reduce respiratory motion artifacts in PET images of
lung cancer. The method is referred to as respiratory-correlated dynamic PET (RCDPET) …

Respiratory-gated time-of-flight PET/CT during whole-body scan for lung lesions: feasibility in a routine clinical setting and quantitative analysis

N Suzawa, Y Ichikawa, M Ishida, Y Tomita… - Annals of nuclear …, 2016 - Springer
Purpose To demonstrate the feasibility of respiratory gating during whole-body scan for lung
lesions in routine 18 F-FDG PET/CT examinations using a time-of-flight (TOF)-capable …

Importance of gated CT acquisition for the quantitative improvement of the gated PET/CT in moving phantom

Y Sakaguchi, T Mitsumoto, T Zhang… - Annals of nuclear …, 2010 - Springer
Objective The aim of this study was to investigate the utility of gated PET/CT and CT
attenuation correction (AC) for the quantitation of radioactivity. Methods An ellipse phantom …

Improving the Spatial Alignment in PET/CT Using Amplitude-Based Respiration-Gated PET and Patient-Specific Breathing–Instructed CT

CS Van Der Vos, APW Meeuwis… - Journal of nuclear …, 2019 - Soc Nuclear Med
Appropriate attenuation correction is important for accurate quantification of SUVs in PET.
Patient respiratory motion can introduce a spatial mismatch between respiration-gated PET …