Analysis and correction of count rate reduction during simultaneous MR-PET measurements with the BrainPET scanner

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 31, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 1372-1380

  Weirich, Christoph ^a   Brenner, Daniel ^a   Scheins, Jürgen ^a   Besancon, Étienne ^a   Tellmann, Lutz ^a   Herzog, Hans ^a   Shah, N Jon ^a  

^a FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Correction; count rate reduction; magnetic resonance imaging (MRI); mutual interference; positron emission tomography (PET)

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; CONSTANT MAGNETIC FIELDS; CORRECTION METHOD; COUNT RATES; ECHO PLANAR IMAGING; EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; FAST SWITCHING; FUNCTIONAL MRI; GEOMETRIC DISTRIBUTION; GRADIENT FIELDS; MAGNETIC FIELD GRADIENT; MR SEQUENCE; MUTUAL INTERFERENCE; PET DETECTORS; RADIO-FREQUENCY PULSE; RECONSTRUCTED IMAGE; SIEMENS; TOTAL COUNTS;

ELECTRIC POWER FACTOR CORRECTION; MAGNETIC FIELDS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; SCANNING;

POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

ARTICLE; BRAIN; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; ELECTRONICS; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RADIOFREQUENCY RADIATION; REPRODUCIBILITY;

BRAIN; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; ELECTRONICS, MEDICAL; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RADIO WAVES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 84863460848     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMI.2012.2188903     Document Type: Article

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