Magnetic resonance-based attenuation correction for PET/MR hybrid imaging using continuous valued attenuation maps

Investigative Radiology

Volumn 48, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 323-332

  Navalpakkam, Bharath K ^a,b   Braun, Harald ^b   Kuwert, Torsten ^a   Quick, Harald H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ERLANGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

attenuation correction; PET quantification; PET MR hybrid imaging; support vector regression

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AIR; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; BREATH HOLDING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICAL BONE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MEDICAL EDUCATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RADIATION ATTENUATION; STANDARD; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINE; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

BRAIN; FEMALE; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F18; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; SKULL;

EID: 84876296939     PISSN: 00209996     EISSN: 15360210     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/RLI.0b013e318283292f     Document Type: Article

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