Comparison of lesion detection and quantitation of tracer uptake between PET from a simultaneously acquiring whole-body PET/MR hybrid scanner and PET from PET/CT

European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 12-21

  Wiesmüller, Marco ^a   Quick, Harald H ^b   Navalpakkam, Bharath ^b   Lell, Michael M ^a   Uder, Michael ^a   Ritt, Philipp ^a,b   Schmidt, Daniela ^a   Beck, Michael ^a   Kuwert, Torsten ^a   Von Gall, Carl C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ERLANGEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Hybrid imaging; MR; PET; PET CT; PET MR; Quantification

Indexed keywords

FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LESIONS AND DEFECTS; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY; WHOLE BODY PET; WHOLE BODY SCINTISCANNING;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F18; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ORGANOMETALLIC COMPOUNDS; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY AND COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; WHOLE BODY IMAGING;

EID: 84875757237     PISSN: 16197070     EISSN: 16197089     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00259-012-2249-y     Document Type: Article

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