Attenuation correction methods suitable for brain imaging with a PET/MRI scanner: A comparison of tissue atlas and template attenuation map approaches

Journal of Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 52, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 1142-1149

  Malone, Ian B ^a   Ansorge, Richard E ^a   Williams, Guy B ^b   Nestor, Peter J ^b   Carpenter, T Adrian ^b   Fryer, Tim D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Attenuation correction; Brain; Nonrigid registration; PET MRI scanner

Indexed keywords

FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18;

ACCURACY; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ATTENUATION CORRECTION; CEREBELLUM VERMIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ETHMOID BONE; FRONTAL CORTEX; HUMAN; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; NEUROIMAGING; NOSE CAVITY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARANASAL SINUS; PHANTOM; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION RELATED PHENOMENA; RADIOACTIVITY;

BRAIN; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F18; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 79960336732     PISSN: 01615505     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2967/jnumed.110.085076     Document Type: Article

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