CT-based evaluation of segmented head regions for attenuation correction in MR-PET systems

IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 2793-2797

  Wagenknecht, Gudrun ^a   Kops, Elena Rota ^a   Kaffanke, Joachim ^a   Tellmann, Lutz ^a   Mottaghy, Felix ^b   Piroth, Marc D ^b   Herzog, Hans ^a  

^a FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL RWTH AACHEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

attenuation correction; CT based evaluation; head segmentation; MR BrainPET

Indexed keywords

ATTENUATION CORRECTION; CT DATA; CT-BASED EVALUATION; DATA SETS; DICE COEFFICIENT; GOLD STANDARDS; HEAD SEGMENTATION; KNOWLEDGE-BASED METHODS; MR-BRAINPET; MULTI-MODALITY; SEGMENTATION RESULTS; SOFT TISSUE; TUMOR PATIENT;

BONE; GAMMA RAYS; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; MEDICAL IMAGING; NUCLEAR PHYSICS; TISSUE;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 79960331651     PISSN: 10957863     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/NSSMIC.2010.5874301     Document Type: Conference Paper

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