Halo artifacts of indwelling urinary catheter by inaccurate scatter correction in 18F-FDG PET/CT imaging: incidence, mechanism, and solutions

Abstract Background Halo artifacts from urinary catheters can occur due to inaccurate scatter correction, and the artifacts affect the tumor visibility in 18F-FDG PET/CT images. We investigated the incidence rate and the mechanisms of halo-artifact generation and explored several scatter correction...

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Main Authors: Keiichi Magota, Naoto Numata, Daiki Shinyama, Junya Katahata, Yamato Munakata, Piotr J. Maniawski, Kentaro Kobayashi, Osamu Manabe, Kenji Hirata, Ukihide Tateishi, Kohsuke Kudo, Tohru Shiga
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SpringerOpen 2020-11-01
Series:EJNMMI Physics
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s40658-020-00333-8