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Does Reducing CT Artifacts from Dental Implants Influence the PET Interpretation in PET/CT Studies of Oral Cancer and Head and Neck Cancer?

Claude Nahmias, Catherine Lemmens, David Faul, Eric Carlson, Misty Long, Todd Blodgett, Johan Nuyts and David Townsend
Journal of Nuclear Medicine July 2008, 49 (7) 1047-1052; DOI: https://doi.org/10.2967/jnumed.107.049858

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Original CT image (A); analytic CT metallic artifact reduction algorithm (B); and hybrid, iterative CT metallic artifact reduction algorithm (C). Window was 300 HU wide, and level was 30 HU for the 3 images.

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