Tissue classification as a potential approach for attenuation correction in whole-body PET/MRI: Evaluation with PET/CT data

Journal of Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 50, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 520-526

  Martinez Moller, Axel ^a   Souvatzoglou, Michael ^a   Delso, Gaspar ^a   Bundschuh, Ralph A ^a   Chefd'Hotel, Christophe ^b   Ziegler, Sibylle I ^a   Navab, Nassir ^a   Schwaiger, Markus ^a   Nekolla, Stephan G ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b SIEMENS CORPORATE RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Attenuation correction; Instrumentation; PET CT; PET MRI

Indexed keywords

FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18;

ADIPOSE TISSUE; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BONE LESION; BONE METASTASIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CLINICAL STUDY; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; COMPUTER ASSISTED EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC APPROACH ROUTE; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LUNG; LUNG LESION; LUNG METASTASIS; NECK INJURY; NECK METASTASIS; ONCOLOGICAL PROCEDURES; PELVIC GIRDLE; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION ATTENUATION; RADIATION DOSE; SOFT TISSUE; STANDARDIZATION; WHOLE BODY MRI; WHOLE BODY PET;

ARTIFACTS; BONE NEOPLASMS; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SUBTRACTION TECHNIQUE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; WHOLE BODY IMAGING;

EID: 63849338624     PISSN: 01615505     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2967/jnumed.108.054726     Document Type: Article

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