MR-based PET attenuation correction for PET/MR imaging

Seminars in Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 43, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 45-59

  Bezrukov, Ilja ^a,b   Mantlik, Frédéric ^a,b   Schmidt, Holger ^a   Schölkopf, Bernhard ^b   Pichler, Bernd J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADIPOSE TISSUE; AIR; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT REDUCTION; BONE TISSUE; COMPUTER ASSISTED EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; CONSTANTS AND COEFFICIENTS; HUMAN; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; LUNG PARENCHYMA; MACHINE LEARNING; MONTE CARLO METHOD; MUSCLE TISSUE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHANTOM; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RADIATION ATTENUATION; WHOLE BODY CT; WHOLE BODY MRI; WHOLE BODY PET;

EID: 84870010313     PISSN: 00012998     EISSN: 15584623     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/j.semnuclmed.2012.08.002     Document Type: Review

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