The Clinical Role of Fusion Imaging Using PET, CT, and MR Imaging

Magnetic Resonance Imaging Clinics of North America

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 133-149

  Zaidi, Habib ^a   Montandon, Marie Louise ^a   Alavi, Abass ^b  

^a GENEVA UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS   (Switzerland)

^b HOSPITAL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Image fusion; Multimodality imaging; PET CT; PET MRI; Quantification

Indexed keywords

6 FLUORODOPAMINE F 18; CARBON 11; CYSTEINE ETHYL ESTER TC 99M; FLUORINE 18; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18; GALLIUM 68; RUBIDIUM 82;

CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURGERY; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; COMPUTER ASSISTED EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DIGITAL IMAGING AND COMMUNICATIONS IN MEDICINE; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATHOLOGICAL ANATOMY; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; REVIEW; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; TREATMENT PLANNING;

BRAIN DISEASES; CONTRAST MEDIA; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; SOFTWARE; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 70649100415     PISSN: 10649689     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mric.2009.09.010     Document Type: Review

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