Investigation of MR-based attenuation correction and motion compensation for hybrid PET/MR

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 59, Issue 5 PART 1, 2012, Pages 1967-1976

  Buerger, Christian ^a   Tsoumpas, Charalampos ^a   Aitken, Andrew ^a   King, Andrew Peter ^a   Schleyer, Paul ^a   Schulz, Volkmar ^b   Marsden, Paul K ^a   Schaeffter, Tobias ^a  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b PHILIPS RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (Germany)

Author keywords

Attenuation correction; Cortical bone; Motion correction; Motion model; MR; PET simulation; Ultrashort echo time

Indexed keywords

ATTENUATION CORRECTION; CORTICAL BONE; ECHO TIME; MOTION CORRECTION; MOTION MODELS; MR;

BONE; ERRORS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; RESPIRATORY MECHANICS; TISSUE;

MOTION COMPENSATION;

EID: 84867853884     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2012.2209127     Document Type: Article

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