Optimizing positron emission tomography image acquisition protocols in integrated positron emission tomography/magnetic resonance imaging

Investigative Radiology

Volumn 48, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 290-294

  Hartung Knemeyer, Verena ^a   Beiderwellen, Karsten J ^a   Buchbender, Christian ^b   Kuehl, Hilmar ^a   Lauenstein, Thomas C ^a   Bockisch, Andreas ^a   Poeppel, Thorsten D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ESSEN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Germany)

^b HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

integrated PET MRI; optimizing protocol; PET acquisition time

Indexed keywords

FLUORINE 18; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST TO NOISE RATIO; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO;

CONTRAST MEDIA; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F18; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; OBSERVER VARIATION; ORGANOMETALLIC COMPOUNDS; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84876293466     PISSN: 00209996     EISSN: 15360210     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/RLI.0b013e3182823695     Document Type: Article

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