FIGURE 4.
FIGURE 4.
Metal ring on left breast of patient (arrow) produces streaking artifacts and high CT numbers (A), resulting in falsely increased radiotracer uptake on PET images with CT attenuation correction (B), whereas PET image without attenuation correction shows only background activity at level of metal ring (C).
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