Respiratory motion correction for quantitative PET/CT using all detected events with internal-external motion

Chi Liu1, Adam M Alessio, Paul E Kinahan

  • 1Department of Diagnostic Radiology, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06520, USA. chi.liu@yale.edu

Medical Physics
|July 23, 2011
PubMed
Summary

This study introduces the internal-external (INTEX) motion correlation method to correct respiratory motion blurring in PET/CT scans. The INTEX method improves tumor quantification and delineation by minimizing motion artifacts and enhancing therapy response assessment.

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