Motion-correction strategies for enhancing whole-body PET imaging

Positron Emission Tomography (PET) is a powerful medical imaging technique widely used for detection and monitoring of disease. However, PET imaging can be adversely affected by patient motion, leading to degraded image quality and diagnostic capability. Hence, motion gating schemes have been develo...

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Published in:Frontiers in nuclear medicine 2024, Vol.4
Main Authors: Wang, James, Bermudez, Dalton, Chen, Weijie, Durgavarjhula, Divya, Randell, Caitlin, Uyanik, Meltem, McMillan, Alan
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
cardiac gating
data-driven gating
hardware-driven gating
motion correction
positron emission tomography (PET)
respiratory gating
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Summary:Positron Emission Tomography (PET) is a powerful medical imaging technique widely used for detection and monitoring of disease. However, PET imaging can be adversely affected by patient motion, leading to degraded image quality and diagnostic capability. Hence, motion gating schemes have been developed to monitor various motion sources including head motion, respiratory motion, and cardiac motion. The approaches for these techniques have commonly come in the form of hardware-driven gating and data-driven gating, where the distinguishing aspect is the use of external hardware to make motion measurements vs. deriving these measures from the data itself. The implementation of these techniques helps correct for motion artifacts and improves tracer uptake measurements. With the great impact that these methods have on the diagnostic and quantitative quality of PET images, much research has been performed in this area, and this paper outlines the various approaches that have been developed as applied to whole-body PET imaging.
ISSN:2673-8880
2673-8880
DOI:10.3389/fnume.2024.1257880