PET/MR imaging of bone lesions - Implications for PET quantification from imperfect attenuation correction

European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging

Volumn 39, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 1154-1160

  Samarin, Andrei ^a   Burger, Cyrill ^a   Wollenweber, Scott D ^b   Crook, David W ^a   Burger, Irene A ^a   Schmid, Daniel T ^a   Von Schulthess, Gustav K ^a   Kuhn, Felix P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b GE HEALTHCARE   (United States)

Author keywords

Attenuation correction; Bone segmentation; CT simulation; MR; PET

Indexed keywords

FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18;

ADULT; ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; BONE LESION; BONE STRUCTURE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCLEROSIS; SOFT TISSUE DEFECT; SPINAL CORD LESION; WHOLE BODY PET;

ADULT; AGED; BONE NEOPLASMS; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F18; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84862643672     PISSN: 16197070     EISSN: 16197089     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00259-012-2113-0     Document Type: Article

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