Design and development of phantoms capable of continuous motion during simultaneous PET-MR acquisitions

IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 3567-3571

  Soultanidis, G M ^a   Mackewn, J E ^a   Lerche, C W ^b   Tsoumpas, C ^a   Buerger, C ^a   Szanda, I ^a   Halsted, P ^a   Schaeffter, T ^a   Schulz, V ^a   Marsden, P K ^a,b  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b PHILIPS RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; MEDICAL IMAGING; PHANTOMS; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

CONTINUOUS MOTIONS; DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT; MOTION ARTIFACT; MOTION CORRECTION; NEW APPROACHES; POLYVINYL ALCOHOL (PVA) CRYOGEL; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY (PET); SIMULTANEOUS ACQUISITION;

MOTION ESTIMATION;

EID: 84858684473     PISSN: 10957863     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/NSSMIC.2011.6153670     Document Type: Conference Paper

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