Variable lung density consideration in attenuation correction of whole-body PET/MRI

Journal of Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 53, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 977-984

  Marshall, Harry R ^a,b   Prato, Frank S ^a,b,c   Deans, Lela ^a   Theb́erge, Jean ^a,b,c   Thompson, R Terry ^a,b,c   Stodilka, Robert Z ^a,b,c,d  

^a LAWSON HEALTH RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^c ST JOSEPH S HEALTH CENTRE   (Canada)

^d LONDON HEALTH SCIENCES CENTRE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Attenuation correction; Lung density; PET MRI; Segmentation; Whole body imaging

Indexed keywords

FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18;

ACCURACY; ANALYTICAL ERROR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; COMPUTER ASSISTED EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOG; FEMALE; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LUNG PARENCHYMA; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RADIATION ATTENUATION; WHOLE BODY MRI; WHOLE BODY PET; WHOLE BODY POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING;

ANIMALS; DOGS; FEMALE; LUNG; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY AND COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; WHOLE BODY IMAGING;

EID: 84861883596     PISSN: 01615505     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2967/jnumed.111.098350     Document Type: Article

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