Diffusion tensor imaging in a human PET/MR hybrid system

Investigative Radiology

Volumn 45, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 270-274

  Boss, Andreas ^a   Kolb, Armin ^a   Hofmann, Matthias ^a,b   Bisdas, Sotirios ^a   Nägele, Thomas ^a   Ernemann, Ulrike ^a   Stegger, Lars ^a   Rossi, Cristina ^a   Schlemmer, Heinz Peter ^a   Pfannenberg, Christina ^a   Reimold, Matthias ^a   Claussen, Claus D ^a   Pichler, Bernd J ^a   Klose, Uwe ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL CYBERNETICS   (Germany)

Author keywords

Diffusion tensor imaging; Magnetic resonance imaging; PET MR imaging; Positron emission tomography

Indexed keywords

LUTETIUM OXYORTHOSILICATE; SILICATE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN TUMOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 77951101471     PISSN: 00209996     EISSN: 15360210     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/RLI.0b013e3181dc3671     Document Type: Article

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