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Integrating respiratory gating and continuous bed motion PET/CT: evaluating an improved clinical workflow

2019; Schattauer Verlag; Linguagem: Inglês

10.1055/s-0039-1683727

2567-6407

Esteban Solari, Alberto Villagrán Asiares, Sylvia Kleinert, Coletta Kruschke, Alexander Winter, Borjana Bogdanović, Mona Mustafa, Wolfgang Weber, SG Nekolla,

Advanced Radiotherapy Techniques

Since more than a decade, respiratory gating is available on PET/CT systems to improve diagnostic accuracy by reducing motion blurring. However, this is contrasted by increased scan times and logistical overhead. Thus, we investigated whether an integration with continuous bed motion (CBM) scanning addresses these limitations.