Development of an MR-compatible SPECT system (MRSPECT) for simultaneous data acquisition

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 55, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1563-1575

  Hamamura, Mark J ^a   Ha, Seunghoon ^a   Roeck, Werner W ^a   Muftuler, L Tugan ^a   Wagenaar, Douglas J ^b   Meier, Dirk ^b   Patt, Bradley E ^b   Nalcioglu, Orhan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Ideas Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADVERSE EFFECT; ANATOMICAL INFORMATION; CADMIUM ZINC TELLURIDES; DUAL-MODALITY; FUNCTIONAL INFORMATION; FURTHER DEVELOPMENT; HARDWARE COMPONENTS; HIGH SPATIAL RESOLUTION; HUMAN SYSTEM; METALLIC COMPONENT; MR IMAGES; MR-COMPATIBLE; NONUNIFORM; NUCLEAR RADIATION DETECTORS; PHANTOM EXPERIMENT; PROJECTION DATA; RADIO-FREQUENCY COIL; RESOLUTION LOSS; SHIFT-AND; SMALL ANIMAL IMAGING; SPECT SYSTEM; WHOLE-BODY;

CADMIUM; CADMIUM TELLURIDE; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; MAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEAR RADIATION SPECTROSCOPY; RESONANCE; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; ZINC;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

CADMIUM DERIVATIVE; CADMIUM TELLURIDE; DIAGNOSTIC AGENT; RADIOPHARMACEUTICAL AGENT; TELLURIUM; ZINC;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; WHOLE BODY IMAGING;

CADMIUM COMPOUNDS; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TELLURIUM; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; WHOLE BODY IMAGING; ZINC;

EID: 77749307155     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/55/6/002     Document Type: Article

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