The impact of data-driven respiratory gating in clinical F-18 FDG PET/CT: comparison of free breathing and deep-expiration breath-hold CT protocol.

Seo Young KangByung Seok MoonHye Ok KimHai-Jeon YoonBom Sahn Kim

Published in: Annals of nuclear medicine (2021)

These results suggest that DDG correction enables more corrected quantification from respiratory movements for lesions located in the lung and upper abdomen. Therefore, we suggest that DDG is worth using as a standard protocol during 18F-FDG PET/CT imaging.

Keyphrases

randomized controlled trial
high resolution
respiratory tract
image quality
contrast enhanced
dual energy
positron emission tomography
magnetic resonance
mass spectrometry
pet ct