Management of respiratory motion in PET/computed tomography

Respiratory motion correction in prostate cancer positron emission tomography: A study on patients and phantom simulation

Introduction: To investigate the effects of breathing cycle and tree diaphragm motions on prostate cancer tumors standard uptake value (SUV) during positron emission tomography (PET) and to correct it. Materials and methods: Respiratory motion traces were simulated on the common patient breathing cycle and tree diaphragm motio...

Respiratory Motion Correction in Positron Emission Tomography

In this thesis, we develop a motion correction method to overcome the degradation of image quality introduced by respiratory motion in positron emission tomography (PET), so that diagnostic performance for lung cancer can be improved. Lung cancer is currently the most common cause of cancer death both in the UK and in the world. PET/CT, which is a combination of PET and CT, providing clinicians...

Respiratory Motion Correction in Emission Tomography Imaging

During an emission tomography exam of lungs, respiratory motion blurs the reconstructed image, which may lead to misinterpretations and imprecise diagnosis. Solutions like respiratory gating, correlated dynamic PET techniques, listmode data based techniques and others have been tested with improvements over the spatial activity distribution in lungs lesions, but with the disadvantages of either...

Management of respiratory motion in PET/computed tomography: the state of the art

Combined PET/computed tomography (CT) is of value in cancer diagnosis, follow-up, and treatment planning. For cancers located in the thorax or abdomen, the patient's breathing causes artifacts and errors in PET and CT images. Many different approaches for artifact avoidance or correction have been developed; most are based on gated acquisition and synchronization between the respiratory signal ...

Mauricio Antonio REYES AGUIRRE Respiratory Motion Compensation in Emission Tomography