CT Artifact Recognition for the Nuclear Technologist

CT artifact recognition for the nuclear technologist.

The goal of this article is to make the PET/CT and SPECT/CT operator aware of common artifacts found in CT. In diagnostic imaging, the ability to render an accurate diagnosis requires the technologist to take steps to optimize image quality and recognize when image quality has been compromised-that is, when there is an image artifact. One way these artifacts occur is through the inability of th...

Epidemiology for the nuclear medicine technologist.

OBJECTIVE The purpose of this article is to introduce the nuclear medicine technologist to the field of epidemiology. There are many applications of epidemiology in nuclear medicine, including research studies that deal with the causes of disease or ways to prevent disease from occurring and investigating the possible effects of ionizing radiation on occupational workers and the general public....

A New Method for Metal Artifact Reduction in CT Scan Images

Introduction In CT imaging, metallic implants inside the tissues cause metal artifact that reduce the quality of image for diagnosis. In order to reduce the effect of this artifact, a new method with more appropriate results has been presented in this research work. Materials and Methods The presented method comprised of following steps: a) image enhancement and metal areas extraction, b) sinog...

Motion Artifact Compensation in CT

A new method for compensating motion artifacts in computerized tomography is presented. The algorithm operates on the raw data, that is, on the measured Radon transform. An edge detection is performed on the Radon transform image. Two curves are obtained from these edges, which are tted by a polynomial. The pointwise diierences between the edges of the Radon transform image and the tted curves ...

Nuclear Medicine Technologist Scope of Practice and Performance Standards.