Characterization of attenuation and respiratory motion artifacts and their influence on SPECT MP image evaluation using a dynamic phantom assembly with variable cardiac defects

Isabelle Chrysanthou-Baustert,Irene Polycarpou,Ourania Demetriadou,Lefteris Livieratos,Antonis Lontos,Antonis C. Antoniou,Stelios Christofides,Charalambos Yiannakkaras,D. Kaolis,Christoforos Panagidis,Paul Marsden,Y. Parpottas

Characterization of attenuation and respiratory motion artifacts and their influence on SPECT MP image evaluation using a dynamic phantom assembly with variable cardiac defects

2017

Isabelle Chrysanthou-Baustert
Irene Polycarpou
Ourania Demetriadou
Lefteris Livieratos
Antonis Lontos
Antonis C. Antoniou
Stelios Christofides
Charalambos Yiannakkaras
D. Kaolis
Christoforos Panagidis
Paul Marsden
Y. Parpottas

Background A phantom assembly that simulates the respiratory motion of the heart was used to investigate artifacts and their impact on defect detection.

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Attenuation
Cardiac defects
Variable cardiac defects
Imaging phantom
Respiratory physiology
Medicine
Respiratory system
Nuclear medicine
Myocardial perfusion imaging
Radiology
Biomedical engineering
respiratory motion
image evaluation
image enhancement

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