Completion of a truncated attenuation image from the attenuated PET emission data

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 237-246

  Nuyts, Johan ^a   Bal, Girish ^b   Kehren, Frank ^b   Fenchel, Matthias ^c   Michel, Christian ^b   Watson, Charles ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b SIEMENS CORPORATE RESEARCH   (United States)

^c SIEMENS AG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Attenuation correction; image reconstruction; positron emission tomography magnetic resonance (PET MR)

Indexed keywords

ATTENUATION CORRECTION; ATTENUATION DATA; ATTENUATION MAPS; EMISSION DATA; FIELD OF VIEWS; MAXIMUM A POSTERIORI ALGORITHM; PET ATTENUATION; PET CAMERA; POSITRON EMISSION; RESEARCH GROUPS; SCATTER CORRECTION; TOMOGRAPHS; TRANSAXIAL;

HYBRID SYSTEMS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION;

POSITRONS;

FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ATTENUATION; BONE; BONE REMODELING; HUMAN; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RADIOACTIVITY; SIMULATION; SOFT TISSUE; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; METHODOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ALGORITHMS; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84873286392     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMI.2012.2220376     Document Type: Article

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