Contemporaneous positron emission tomography and MR imaging at 1.5 T

Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 497-500

  Farahani, Keyvan ^a   Slates, Randal ^a   Shao, Yiping ^a   Silverman, Robert ^a   Cherry, Simon ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Magnetic resonance imaging; MR artifacts; MR compatibility; Positron emission tomography

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ARTIFACT REDUCTION; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHANTOM; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ARTIFACTS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FIBER OPTICS; FRUIT; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED;

EID: 0032949622     PISSN: 10531807     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1522-2586(199903)9:3<497::AID-JMRI21>3.0.CO;2-6     Document Type: Article

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