Effect of oral contrast agents on computed tomography-based positron emission tomography attenuation correction in dual-modality positron emission tomography/computed tomography imaging. - Concepedia

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Effect of oral contrast agents on computed tomography-based positron emission tomography attenuation correction in dual-modality positron emission tomography/computed tomography imaging.

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2003

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Gerald Antoch, Walter Jentzen, Lutz S. Freudenberg, Jörg Stattaus, Stefan Müeller, Jörg F. Debatin, Andreas Bockisch

Abstract

An overestimation of the tracer activity concentration is to be expected in the presence of oral contrast agents, if PET attenuation correction is attained CT-based.