Advances in multimodality imaging through a hybrid PET/MRI system

Critical Reviews in Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 37, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 495-515

  Fatemi Ardekani, Ali ^a,b   Samavati, Navid ^a   Tang, Jin ^a   Kamath, Markad V ^a  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

computed tomography; magnetic resonance imaging; molecular imaging; oncology; position emission tomography

Indexed keywords

DATA ACQUISITION; INDUSTRIAL EMISSIONS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MOLECULAR IMAGING; ONCOLOGY; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; SCANNING;

ECONOMIC FEASIBILITIES; INTEGRATED IMAGING SYSTEMS; MULTI-MODALITY IMAGING; POSITION EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY (PET); POTENTIAL RESEARCHES; RESEARCH APPLICATIONS; SIMULTANEOUS DATA ACQUISITIONS;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

6 FLUORODOPA F 18;

CLINICAL PRACTICE; COMPUTER ASSISTED EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; FEASIBILITY STUDY; HUMAN; HYBRIDIZATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; REVIEW;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 77953968115     PISSN: 0278940X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1615/CritRevBiomedEng.v37.i6.30     Document Type: Review

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