Effects of arm truncation on the appearance of the halo artifact in 68Ga-PSMA-11 (HBED-CC) PET/MRI.

Ali Afshar OmeriehMaya WolfUwe HaberkornMarc KachelrießRegula GnirsKlaus KopkaHeinz-Peter SchlemmerMartin T Freitag

Published in: European journal of nuclear medicine and molecular imaging (2017)

Positioning the arms down was shown to be significantly associated with the appearance of the halo artifact in PET/MRI. Positioning the arms up above the head can significantly reduce the halo artifact, thereby detecting more tumor lesions.

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