MRI-based attenuation correction for whole-body PET/MRI: Quantitative evaluation of segmentation- and atlas-based methods

Journal of Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 52, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 1392-1399

  Hofmann, Matthias ^a,b,c   Bezrukov, Ilja ^a,b   Mantlik, Frederic ^a,b   Aschoff, Philip ^b   Steinke, Florian ^a   Beyer, Thomas ^b   Pichler, Bernd J ^b   Schölkopf, Bernhard ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Atlas; Attenuation correction; PET MRI; Quantitative imaging; Segmentation

Indexed keywords

FAT; WATER;

ADULT; AGED; ALGORITHM; ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; ATTENUATION; ATTENUATION CORRECTION; CLASSIFICATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA BASE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MACHINE LEARNING; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFERENCE VALUE; TECHNIQUE; WHOLE BODY MRI; WHOLE BODY PET;

AGED; ALGORITHMS; ATLASES AS TOPIC; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DATABASES, FACTUAL; FEMALE; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F18; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; METALS; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PROSTHESES AND IMPLANTS; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; WHOLE BODY IMAGING;

EID: 80052644918     PISSN: 01615505     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2967/jnumed.110.078949     Document Type: Article

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