Frequent diagnostic errors in cardiac PET/CT due to misregistration of CT attenuation and emission PET images: a definitive analysis of causes, consequences, and corrections.

Lance Gould; Tinsu Pan; Catalin Loghin; Nils P Johnson; Ashrith Guha; Stefano Sdringola

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Frequent diagnostic errors in cardiac PET/CT due to misregistration of CT attenuation and emission PET images: a definitive analysis of causes, consequences, and corrections.

September 12, 2007

Gould L, Pan T, Loghin C, et al. J Nucl Med. 2007;48(7):1112-21.

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In this study, 40% of cardiac PET/CT scans showed a false-positive result due to technical errors. The authors discuss methods for avoiding such errors.

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