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What techniques do you use to minimize gas artifacts on cone beam CT when treating upper abdominal lesions?

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Radiation Oncology · Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

Gas and motion artifacts are significant causes of poor image quality for imaging studies that have a long acquisition time such as cone beam CT. The problem areas are in the upper abdomen where the impact of respiratory motion is greatest. Organ motion can be controlled in most patients, but the pr...

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