Simulation study of tissue-specific positron range correction for the new biograph mMR whole-body PET/MR system

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 59, Issue 5 PART 1, 2012, Pages 1900-1909

  Kraus, Rebekka ^a   Delso, Gaspar ^a   Ziegler, Sibylle I ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

MLEM; PET MR; positron range; tissue specific

Indexed keywords

ATTENUATION MAPS; LUNG TISSUE; MLEM; MONTE CARLO SIMULATIONS; NON-HOMOGENEOUS; POSITRON RANGE; SIMULATION STUDIES; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; TISSUE TYPES; TISSUE-SPECIFIC; WHOLE-BODY;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; POSITRONS; RUBIDIUM; TISSUE;

ELECTRONS;

EID: 84867582847     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2012.2207436     Document Type: Article

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