The current state, challenges and perspectives of MR-PET

NeuroImage

Volumn 49, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 2072-2082

  Herzog, Hans ^a   Pietrzyk, Uwe ^a,b   Shah, N Jon ^a,c   Ziemons, Karl ^a  

^a FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WUPPERTAL   (Germany)

^c RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Hybrid imaging; MR PET; MRI; Multimodality; PET; PET MRI

Indexed keywords

FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18;

ARTICLE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; FEASIBILITY STUDY; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAGNETIC FIELD; NEUROIMAGING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCESS OPTIMIZATION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO;

EID: 71849117812     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2009.10.036     Document Type: Note

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