How Much CT Do We Need for PEt/CT? A Radiologist's Perspective

Overview

Journal Nuklearmedizin

Publisher Thieme

Specialty Nuclear Medicine

Date 2006 Jan 7

PMID 16395975

Citations 7

Authors

H Kuehl

G Antoch

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Abstract

In clinical practice different CT imaging protocols are implemented within combined PET/CT acquisition protocols. From a radiologist's perspective the full potential of PET/ CT for oncology imaging can be used only by exploring the full capacity of the CT. This mandates the use of oral and intravenous contrast material as well as a CT image quality which proves diagnostically sufficient by radiology standards. The integration of a fully-diagnostic CT exam portion into combined PET/CT is demanding and requires adjustments of CT acquisition protocols. Given the use of the CT for CT-based attenuation correction potential PET/CT image artifacts have to be considered as well. In this paper we review radiological perspectives on PET/CT imaging.

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