High resolution BrainPET combined with simultaneous MRI;Hochauflösende BrainPET kombiniert mit simultaner MRT

NuklearMedizin

Volumn 50, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 74-82

  Herzog, Hans ^a   Langen, K J ^a   Weirich, C ^a   Rota Kops, E ^a   Kaffanke, J ^a   Tellmann, L ^a   Scheins, J ^a   Neuner, I ^a,b   Stoffels, G ^a   Fischer, K ^a   Caldeira, L ^c   Coenen, H H ^a   Shah, N J ^a,b  

^a FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

^b RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LISBON   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Hybrid imaging; Magnetic resonance imaging; MRI; MRPET; Multimodality; PET; PET MRI; Positron emission tomography

Indexed keywords

18F FP CIT; FLUMAZENIL C 11; FLUOROETHYLTYROSINE F 18; RADIOPHARMACEUTICAL AGENT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; ARTIFACT REDUCTION; BRAIN RADIOGRAPHY; GLIOBLASTOMA; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; INFORMATION PROCESSING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARKINSON DISEASE; PHANTOM; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY;

BRAIN; BRAIN DISEASES; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; GERMANY; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SUBTRACTION TECHNIQUE;

EID: 79956152577     PISSN: 00295566     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3413/Nukmed-0347-10-09     Document Type: Article

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