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Influence of Arm Movement on Lesion Detection in PET/CT Imaging: Case Report

Author(s) -

Yasemın Parlak,

Gözde Mütevelizade,

Gül Gümüşer,

Elvan Sayıt

Publication year - 2015

Publication title -

molecular imaging and radionuclide therapy

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.292

H-Index - 7

eISSN - 2147-1959

pISSN - 2146-1414

DOI - 10.4274/mirt.84856

Subject(s) - medicine , nuclear medicine , lesion , radiology , pet imaging , movement (music) , positron emission tomography , pathology , philosophy , aesthetics

Arm movement after the CT scan is a common artifact in PET/CT scanning. Motion artifacts may lead to difficulties in\udinterpreting PET/CT images accurately. We report a 66 year old male patient with gastric cancer who underwent PET/CT for\udprimary staging. He had a previous history of papillary thyroid cancer. In PET scan, there were striking cold artifacts at the\udlevel of arms. This is a classical sign of an accidental arm motion. A second scan was performed with the arms down due to\udthe history of papillary thyroid cancer. The results were discussed

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