Toward simultaneous PET/MR breast imaging: Systematic evaluation and integration of a radiofrequency breast coil

Medical Physics

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 2013, Pages

  Aklan, Bassim ^a   Paulus, Daniel H ^a   Wenkel, Evelyn ^b   Braun, Harald ^a   Navalpakkam, Bharath K ^a   Ziegler, Susanne ^a   Geppert, Christian ^c   Sigmund, Eric E ^d   Melsaether, Amy ^d   Quick, Harald H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ERLANGEN   (Germany)

^c SIEMENS CORPORATE RESEARCH   (United States)

^d NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

integrated PET MR hybrid imaging system; modular PET MR breast phantom; radiofrequency breast coil; simultaneous PET MR breast imaging

Indexed keywords

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DATA ACQUISITION; DISEASES; IMAGE QUALITY; INTEGRATION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHANTOMS; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; QUALITY CONTROL;

ATTENUATION CORRECTION; BREAST IMAGING; BREAST PHANTOM; HYBRID IMAGING SYSTEMS; IMAGE QUALITY PARAMETERS; RADIO FREQUENCIES; SYSTEMATIC EVALUATION; THREEDIMENSIONAL (3-D);

MEDICAL IMAGING;

ARTICLE; ATTENUATION; BREAST; BREAST CANCER; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGING PHANTOM; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; PET SCANNER; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION EQUIPMENT; RADIOFREQUENCY BREAST COIL; SIGNAL PROCESSING; BREAST TUMOR; EQUIPMENT; EVALUATION; IMAGE QUALITY; METHODOLOGY; RADIOFREQUENCY RADIATION; SCINTISCANNING; SYSTEM ANALYSIS; TIME;

BREAST; BREAST NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RADIO WAVES; SYSTEMS INTEGRATION; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84873594093     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.4788642     Document Type: Article

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