MR-driven metal artifact reduction in PET/CT

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 58, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 2267-2280

  Delso, G ^a,b   Wollenweber, S ^a   Lonn, A ^a   Wiesinger, F ^c   Veit Haibach, P ^b  

^a GE HEALTHCARE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c GE GLOBAL RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATTENUATION CORRECTION; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORRECTION ALGORITHMS; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; METAL ARTIFACT REDUCTION; STANDALONE SYSTEMS; STREAK ARTIFACTS; SYSTEM ARCHITECTURES;

DIGITAL STORAGE; ONCOLOGY;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

METAL;

ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; COMPUTER ASSISTED EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; NEOPLASM; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCINTISCANNING; TOOTH IMPLANT;

ARTIFACTS; DENTAL IMPLANTS; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; METALS; NEOPLASMS; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY AND COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 84875293082     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/58/7/2267     Document Type: Article

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