Preclinical evaluation of MR attenuation correction versus CT attenuation correction on a sequential whole-body MR/PET scanner

Investigative Radiology

Volumn 48, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 313-322

  Bini, Jason ^a,b   Izquierdo Garcia, David ^a   Mateo, Jesus ^a,c   MacHac, Josef ^d   Narula, Jagat ^e   Fuster, Valentin ^c,e   Fayad, Zahi A ^a,e  

^a MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b City College of New York   (United States)

^c CENTRO NACIONAL DE INVESTIGACIONES CARDIOVASCULARES CNIC   (Spain)

^d Division of Nuclear Medicine   (United States)

^e Zena and Michael A Weiner Cardiovascular Institute   (Spain)

Author keywords

attenuation correction; magnetic resonance imaging; molecular imaging; positron emission tomography; quantification

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; AORTA; ARTICLE; CLINICAL EVALUATION; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ATTENUATION CORRECTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; INFORMATION PROCESSING; KIDNEY; LIVER; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ATTENUATION CORRECTION; MALE; MUSCLE; NEW ZEALAND; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RABBIT; RADIATION ATTENUATION; REGION OF INTEREST ANALYSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEQUENTIAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; SPINE; VOXEL BY VOXEL ANALYSIS; WHOLE BODY SCANNER;

ANIMALS; AORTA; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; KIDNEY; LIVER; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MODELS, ANIMAL; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RABBITS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPINE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; WHOLE BODY IMAGING;

EID: 84876294678     PISSN: 00209996     EISSN: 15360210     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/RLI.0b013e31827a49ba     Document Type: Article

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