18F-FDG-PET and MRI in patients with malignancies of the liver and pancreas:Accuracy of retrospective multimodality image registration by using the CT-component of PET/CT

NuklearMedizin

Volumn 49, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 106-114

  Donati, O F ^a   Reiner, C S ^a   Hany, T F ^a   Fornaro, J ^a   Von Schulthess, G K ^a   Marincek, B ^a   Weishaupt, D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Image fusion; Magnetic resonance imaging; Multimodality imaging; PET CT; Pet MR; Positron emission tomography

Indexed keywords

FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18; GADOBUTROL; GADOXETIC ACID; DIAGNOSTIC AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CANCER SCINTISCANNING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; LIVER CANCER; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PANCREAS CANCER; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; BODY SIZE; COLON TUMOR; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; HISTOLOGY; LIVER; LIVER TUMOR; METASTASIS; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; OBSERVER VARIATION; PANCREAS TUMOR; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; SCINTISCANNING;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BODY SIZE; COLONIC NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F18; HUMANS; LIVER; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBSERVER VARIATION; PANCREATIC NEOPLASMS; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 77952864831     PISSN: 00295566     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3413/nukmed-0263     Document Type: Article

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