Attenuation correction in MR-PET scanners with segmented T1-weighted MR images

IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 2530-2533

  Kops, Elena Rota ^a   Wagenknecht, Gudrun ^a   Scheins, Jürgen ^a   Tellmann, Lutz ^a   Herzog, Hans ^a  

^a FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATTENUATION COEFFICIENT; ATTENUATION CORRECTION; ATTENUATION MAPS; BRAIN TISSUE; BRAIN TUMORS; CORTICAL REGIONS; CT SCAN; CT VOLUME; EMISSION DATA; FDG PET; GAUSSIAN KERNELS; GREY MATTERS; HOUNSFIELD UNITS; MR IMAGES; MR SCANNERS; NEW APPROACHES; PET DATA; PET IMAGES; PET SCAN; PET SCANNER; SELECTION CRITERIA; SOFT TISSUE; TRANSMISSION DATA;

BRAIN; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; MULTIPHOTON PROCESSES; NUCLEAR PHYSICS; PHOTONS; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; TISSUE;

SCANNING;

EID: 77951174895     PISSN: 10957863     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/NSSMIC.2009.5402034     Document Type: Conference Paper

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