Nonrigid PET motion compensation in the lower abdomen using simultaneous tagged-MRI and PET imaging

Medical Physics

Volumn 38, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 3025-3038

  Guerin B ^a   Cho, S ^a   Chun, S Y ^a   Zhu, X ^a   Alpert, N M ^a   El Fakhri, G ^a   Reese, T ^a   Catana, C ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

fully 3D reconstruction; motion correction; simultaneous PET MRI acquisitions; tagged MRI

Indexed keywords

DEFORMATION; HISTOLOGY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MOTION COMPENSATION; MOTION ESTIMATION; PHANTOMS; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RESPIRATORY MECHANICS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; TISSUE; TISSUE ENGINEERING;

CLINICAL APPLICATION; DISPLACEMENT VECTORS; FULLY 3D RECONSTRUCTION; MOTION CORRECTION; NON-RIGID DEFORMATION; PET MRIS; SUSCEPTIBILITY ARTIFACTS; TAGGED MRI;

MOTION TRACKING;

EID: 79958840226     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3589136     Document Type: Article

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