PPT-Recognizing and Minimizing Artifacts at CT, MRI, US, and Molecular Imaging

Benjamin L Triche MD John T Nelson Jr MD Noah S McGill MD Kristin K Porter MD PhD Rupan Sanyal MD Franklin N Tessler MD Jonathan E McConathy MD PhD . Molecular imaging procedures are highly effective, safe and painless diagnostic imaging and treatment tools that present physicians with a detailed view of what’s going on inside an individual& Role of Artifacts in Educator Support and . Evaluation. Spring 2015 Webinar. Outcomes. Explain . the three . categories . of evidence required by the Oregon Framework, and identify concrete examples of . European Molecular Imaging Doctoral School. Expert . training. in Molecular Imaging. Promote PhD student . mobility. Molecular . Imaging Professional. Academic. Industry. European Molecular Imaging Doctoral School. What Have We Learned?. . A Functional and Molecular Neuroimaging Perspective. Emily Stern, . MD. Director, Functional Neuroimaging Laboratory. Director, Functional and Molecular Neuroimaging. Departments of Radiology and Psychiatry. Filipa Mendes. Center. for Nuclear Sciences . and. Technologies. IST, Universidade de Lisboa .  . Summer school . Development and Pre-clinical Evaluation of Radiopharmaceuticals. Molecular . and. Cell . Yuji Kuge ProfileAffiliation Central Institute of Isotope ScienceJob Title ProfessorDegree PhD of Pharmaceutical Sciences Research KeywordsRadiopharmaceutical Molecular Imaging Nuclear Medicine Resear David Sing. 1,2. , Rahul Gujrathi. 1. , Steven Seltzer. 1. , Giles Boland. 1. , George Dyer. 1,3. , . Mitchel Harris. 1,4. , Paul Tornetta III. 2. , Bharti Khurana. 1*. 1. . Trauma Imaging Research and Innovation Center, Department of Radiology. F Edward Boas & Dominik Fleischmann* Department of Radiology, Stanford University School of Medicine, 300 Pasteur Drive, Stanford, CA 94305, USA *Author for correspondence: Tel.: +1 650 723 7647 d.fle Moderator: Dr. K. B . Umamaheshwari. Presenter: Dr. Ameet Mudda. introduction. Artifacts can seriously degrade the quality of computed . tomographic. (CT) images, sometimes to the point of making them diagnostically unusable.. Improve SNR.. Avoid saturation of the signal.. Avoid loss of useful information.. Reduce artifacts.. Optimize resolution.. Limit examination time.. ARTIFACTS. Defined as a . feature appearing in an ultrasound image . in Preclinical Research. Wenchang Xiao, Ph.D.. Wuhan RAYDATA Technology Co., Ltd.. Anatomic Physiologic Metabolic Molecular. PET/SPECT. x-ray CT. MR Spectroscopy. Carlos Marcuello. 1,2,*. , Anabel Lostao. 1,2,3,* . 1. Instituto de Nanociencia y . Materiales. de Aragón (INMA), CSIC-Universidad de Zaragoza, 50009 Zaragoza. Spain. 2. . Laboratorio. de . Microscopías. BioE. 477/598DP. Module 1. Dipanjan Pan, PhD, FRSC, FAHA, FACC. Department of Bioengineering. Beckman Institute of Advanced Imaging and Science. Department of Materials Science and Engineering. dipanjan@illinois.edu. Artifacts are simply signal misrepresentations that do not correspond to the location of the specific tissue imaged. . What causes artifacts. ?. The Patient/ Subject. Magnetic Field Inhomogeneity. Machine Hardware.