Introduction: Metallic artifacts due to pacemaker/ implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD) leads in CT images can produce artifactual uptake in cardiac SPECT/CT images. The aim of this study was to determine the influence of the metallic artifacts due to pacemaker and ICD leads on myocardial SPECT/CT imaging. Methods: The study included 9 patients wh...

Metal artifact removal (MAR) is one of the most important issues in x-ray CT reconstruction. Various methods have been suggested for metal artifact removal, among which projection modification and iterative methods are most popular. While those methods mainly focus on removing background artifacts, for some applications such as dental CT the correct reconstruction of metallic inserts is also im...

segmentation and three‑dimensional (3d) visualization of teeth in dental computerized tomography (ct) images are of dentists’ requirements for both abnormalities diagnosis and the treatments such as dental implant and orthodontic planning. on the other hand, dental ct image segmentation is a difficult process because of the specific characteristics of the tooth’s structure. this paper presents ...

We compared metal artifact in X-ray digital tomosynthesis (DT) and modern computed tomography (CT) reconstruction to improve the image quality. We compared the images of a prosthetic phantom (titanium) and a contrast-detail phantom obtained by DT using conventional filtered backprojection (FBP), metal artifact reduction (MAR) processing, and simultaneous iterative reconstruction technique (SIRT...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Adverse reactions to metal debris have been reported to be a cause of pain in metal-on-metal hip arthroplasty. We assessed the incidence of both symptomatic and asymptomatic adverse reactions in a consecutive series of patients with a modern large-head metal-on-metal hip arthroplasty. METHODS We studied the early clinical results and results of routine metal artifact-re...

Background While CMR has become instrumental in imaging complex congential heart disease (CHD), limitations remain including significant flow and metal artifact on cine images. 2D dark blood imaging generally requires gating to diastole which may not capture the maximal vessel dimensions, is time consuming and dependent on precise plane positioning. Traditional 3D whole heart sequences are also...

PURPOSE Metal artifact reduction (MAR) produces images with improved quality potentially leading to confident and reliable clinical diagnosis and therapy planning. In this work, the authors evaluate the performance of five MAR techniques for the assessment of computed tomography images of patients with hip prostheses. METHODS Five MAR algorithms were evaluated using simulation and clinical st...

PURPOSE To demonstrate accelerated imaging with both artifact reduction and different contrast mechanisms near metallic implants. MATERIALS AND METHODS Slice-encoding for metal artifact correction (SEMAC) is a modified spin echo sequence that uses view-angle tilting and slice-direction phase encoding to correct both in-plane and through-plane artifacts. Standard spin echo trains and short-TI ...

Introduction: Slice encoding for metal artifact correction (SEMAC) [1] completely corrects metal-induced in-plane and through-plane distortions. The SEMAC imaging sequence (Fig. 1) augments a view-angle-tilting (VAT) [2] spin echo sequence with z-phase encoding. While the VATcompensation gradient suppresses the in-plane distortions, the throughplane distortions are corrected by combining multip...

Introduction: Metallic implants can cause moderate or severe distortion artifacts in MR images depending on the shape, size, composition and orientation of the implant. Recentlyproposed methods correct image distortion due to susceptibility shifts near metallic implants by using excitation of limited bandwidths [1] or limited spatial slices [2], both followed by 3D imaging. Here we demonstrate ...