Fast generation of 4D PET-MR data from real dynamic MR acquisitions

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 56, Issue 20, 2011, Pages 6597-6613

  Tsoumpas, C ^a   Buerger, C ^a   King, A P ^a   Mollet, P ^b   Keereman, V ^b   Vandenberghe, S ^b   Schulz, V ^c   Schleyer, P ^a   Schaeffter, T ^a   Marsden, P K ^a  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^c PHILIPS RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYTIC METHOD; ATTENUATION CORRECTION; BREATHING PATTERNS; COEFFICIENTS OF VARIATIONS; COMPUTATION TIME; DATA SETS; DYNAMIC INFORMATION; MEAN VALUES; MONTE CARLO; MOTION CORRECTION; MR IMAGES; PET IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; PHYSICAL MODELLING; POISSON STATISTIC; PROJECTION DATA; REGION OF INTEREST; SCATTERED EVENTS; SIMULATION METHODS; SMALL LESIONS; STATISTICAL NOISE; UPTAKE VALUES;

POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; TISSUE;

IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION;

ARTICLE; BREATHING; FACTUAL DATABASE; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MONTE CARLO METHOD; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; THEORETICAL MODEL; TIME;

DATABASES, FACTUAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; MOVEMENT; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RESPIRATION; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 80053610284     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/56/20/005     Document Type: Article

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