Respiratory motion is a source of degradation in positron emission tomography. As the patients cannot hold breath during the PET acquisition, spatial blurring and motion artifacts are unavoidable which may lead to wrong quantification of the data. A solution based on respiratory-gating and optical flow based correction of the PET data is proposed. This includes deformation of the CT data for ac...

Cardiac and respiratory movements pose significant challenges to image quality and quantitative accuracy in PET imaging. Cardiac and/or respiratory gating attempt to address this issue, but instead lead to enhanced noise levels. Direct four-dimensional (4D) PET image reconstruction incorporating motion compensation has the potential to minimize noise amplification while removing considerable mo...

Background Respiratory motion compensation is often required in cardiovascular MRI applications especially when the scan time is not suitable for breath-hold. Respiratory self-gating (RSG) is a technique that estimate the respiratory motion based on k-space signal from the imaging object and is especially advantageous in CINE-like applications where conventional diaphragm navigator frequently i...

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...