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Is metal artefact reduction mandatory in cardiac PET/CT imaging in the presence of pacemaker and implantable cardioverter defibrillator leads?

Published inEuropean journal of nuclear medicine and molecular imaging, vol. 38, no. 2, p. 252-262
Publication date2011
Abstract

Cardiac PET/CT imaging is often performed in patients with pacemakers and implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD) leads. However, metallic implants usually produce artefacts on CT images which might propagate to CT-based attenuation-corrected (CTAC) PET images. The impact of metal artefact reduction (MAR) for CTAC of cardiac PET/CT images in the presence of pacemaker, ICD and ECG leads was investigated using both qualitative and quantitative analysis in phantom and clinical studies.

Keywords
  • Artifacts
  • Defibrillators, Implantable/adverse effects
  • Female
  • Heart/radiography/radionuclide imaging
  • Humans
  • Image Interpretation, Computer-Assisted
  • Male
  • Metals/adverse effects
  • Pacemaker, Artificial/adverse effects
  • Phantoms, Imaging
  • Positron-Emission Tomography/methods
  • Tomography, X-Ray Computed/methods
Funding
  • Swiss National Science Foundation - 31003A-135576
Citation (ISO format)
GHAFARIAN, Pardis et al. Is metal artefact reduction mandatory in cardiac PET/CT imaging in the presence of pacemaker and implantable cardioverter defibrillator leads? In: European journal of nuclear medicine and molecular imaging, 2011, vol. 38, n° 2, p. 252–262. doi: 10.1007/s00259-010-1635-6
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