PET/MR imaging of the pelvis in the presence of endoprostheses: Reducing image artifacts and increasing accuracy through inpainting

European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 594-601

  Ladefoged, Claes Nøhr ^a   Andersen, Flemming Littrup ^a   Keller, Sune Høgild ^a   Löfgren, Johan ^a   Hansen, Adam Espe ^a   Holm, Søren ^a   Højgaard, Liselotte ^a   Beyer, Thomas ^a,b  

^a Rigshospitalet   (Denmark)

^b cmi experts GmbH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Combined PET MR; Endoprostheses; Image artifacts; Inpainting; MR based attenuation correction

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL PARAMETERS; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; ATTENUATION CORRECTION; BLADDER; BODY WEIGHT; ENDOPROSTHESIS; FEASIBILITY STUDY; GLUTEUS MAXIMUS MUSCLE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RADIOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; STANDARDIZED UPTAKE VALUES;

ARTIFACTS; HIP PROSTHESIS; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PELVIS; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY AND COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 84875744624     PISSN: 16197070     EISSN: 16197089     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00259-012-2316-4     Document Type: Article

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