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introduction: motion of the patient during myocardial perfusion spect could potentially results in false perfusion defects. the effect of different reconstruction methods on these artifacts is not studied. clarification of the relation between the extent, severity and duration of motion with the resultant artifacts may be helpful in designing special soft wares for motion correction. this study...

Introduction: The image quality of computed tomography (CT) can be seriously lowered by metal implants of patients. These implants are known to exert a significant impact on diagnostic accuracy due to artifacts. The current study aimed to assess the usefulness of Metal Artifact Reduction (MAR) software in the reduction of metal artifacts, in comparison to iterative rec...

A novel no-reference metric to quantify ringing annoyance in compressed images is presented. It makes use of a recently proposed method to detect regions with perceived ringing. In this paper that method is expanded with the estimation of the visibility of ringing artifacts in the detected regions. A psychovisual experiment is carried out to validate the proposed metric. Its performance is comp...

the advent of dual-modality pet/ct imaging has revolutionized the practice of clinical oncology, cardiology and neurology by improving lesions localization and the possibility of accurate quantitative analysis. in addition, the use of ct images for ct-based attenuation correction (ctac) allows to decrease the overall scanning time and to create a noise-free attenuation map (μmap). the near simu...

Bone scanning using the 99mTc-phosphate analogs is an established diagnostic modality and a commonly requested radioisotope examination for a variety of pathologies involving the skeleton, such as osteomyelitis, bony metastases, and occult fractures. The bone scan is one of the most commonly requested procedure in most nuclear medicine department. The images show areas of increased and de...