An MRI-based attenuation correction method for combined PET/MRI applications

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 7262, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Fei, Baowei ^a   Yang, Xiaofeng ^a   Wang, Hesheng ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Attenuation correction; Brain imaging; Classification; MRI; PET; Registration; Segmentation

Indexed keywords

ATTENUATION CORRECTION; BRAIN IMAGING; CLASSIFICATION; MRI; PET; REGISTRATION; SEGMENTATION;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE ATTENUATION; IMAGE REGISTRATION; RESTORATION;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

EID: 67249145977     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.813755     Document Type: Conference Paper

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