MRI-based attenuation correction for hybrid PET/MRI Systems: A 4-class tissue segmentation technique using a combined ultrashort-echo-time/Dixon MRI sequence

Journal of Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 53, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 796-804

  Berker, Yannick ^a,b   Franke, Jochen ^b   Salomon, André ^b,c   Palmowski, Moritz ^a   Donker, Henk C W ^a   Temur, Yavuz ^a   Mottaghy, Felix M ^a,d   Kuhl, Christiane ^a   Izquierdo Garcia, David ^e   Fayad, Zahi A ^e   Kiessling, Fabian ^a   Schulz, Volkmar ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL RWTH AACHEN   (Germany)

^b PHILIPS RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (Netherlands)

^c KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^e Translational and Molecular Imaging Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

Attenuation correction; Molecular imaging; MRI; PET; Ultrashort echo time

Indexed keywords

FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18;

ADIPOSE TISSUE; ARTICLE; ATTENUATION; BRAIN MAPPING; BRAIN REGION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICAL BONE; DECOMPOSITION; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE INTENSIFIER; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MOLECULAR IMAGING; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARANASAL SINUS; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE STUDY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SOFT TISSUE; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TISSUE DIFFERENTIATION;

HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; TIME FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84860811781     PISSN: 01615505     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2967/jnumed.111.092577     Document Type: Article

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