Attenuation correction for MR table and coils for a sequential PET/MR system

IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 3303-3306

  Zhang, Bin ^b   Pal, Debashish ^a   Hu, Zhiqiang ^b   Ojha, Navdeep ^b   Guo, Tianrui ^b   Muswick, Gary ^b   Tung, Chi Hua ^b   Kaste, Jeff ^b  

^a GE HEALTHCARE   (United Kingdom)

^b PHILIPS HEALTHCARE   (United States)

Author keywords

Attenuation correction; MR; PET

Indexed keywords

ATTENUATION CORRECTION; ATTENUATION MAPS; HIGH-DENSITY MATERIALS; MR IMAGES; PET ATTENUATION; PET IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; PHANTOM STUDIES; PHILIPS; TEMPLATE-BASED; TRANSMISSION IMAGES; TRANSMISSION SCANS;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

NUCLEAR PHYSICS;

EID: 77951190555     PISSN: 10957863     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/NSSMIC.2009.5401737     Document Type: Conference Paper

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