An outlook on future design of hybrid PET/MRI systems

Medical Physics

Volumn 38, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 5667-5689

  Zaidi, Habib ^a,b,c   Guerra, Alberto Del ^d,e  

^a GENEVA UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^e INFN SEZIONE DI PISA   (Italy)

Author keywords

attenuation correction; detectors; hybrid scanner; molecular imaging; PET MRI

Indexed keywords

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DETECTORS; DIAGNOSIS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; METABOLISM; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; TISSUE;

ANATOMICAL INFORMATION; ATTENUATION CORRECTION; DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES; HYBRID SCANNERS; PET/MRI; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY (PET); SIMULTANEOUS ACQUISITION; STRUCTURAL DESCRIPTIONS;

MOLECULAR IMAGING;

EID: 80053611395     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3633909     Document Type: Article

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