Image artifacts from MR-based attenuation correction in clinical, whole-body PET/MRI

Magnetic Resonance Materials in Physics, Biology and Medicine

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 173-181

  Keller, Sune H ^a   Holm, Søren ^a   Hansen, Adam E ^a   Sattler, Bernhard ^b   Andersen, Flemming ^a   Klausen, Thomas L ^a   Højgaard, Liselotte ^a   Kjær, Andreas ^a   Beyer, Thomas ^a,c  

^a Rigshospitalet   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL LEIPZIG   (Germany)

^c cmi experts GmbH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Image artifacts; MR based attenuation correction; PET MRI; Pitfalls

Indexed keywords

DIAGNOSTIC AGENT; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18; RADIOPHARMACEUTICAL AGENT;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; METHODOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; WHOLE BODY IMAGING;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFACTS; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F18; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; WHOLE BODY IMAGING;

EID: 84874115273     PISSN: 09685243     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10334-012-0345-4     Document Type: Article

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