Positron emission tomography (PET) attenuation correction artefacts in PET/CT and PET/MRI

British Journal of Radiology

Volumn 86, Issue 1025, 2013, Pages

  Buchbender, C ^a,b   Hartung Knemeyer, V ^b   Forsting, M ^b   Antoch, G ^a   Heusner, T A ^a,b  

^a HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18; METAL; RADIOPHARMACEUTICAL AGENT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; CANCER PATIENT; CERCLAGE; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; DRUG DELIVERY DEVICE; FEMALE; HIP PROSTHESIS; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INJECTION PORT; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; PET SCANNER; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RADIATION ATTENUATION; SCHOOL CHILD; TOOTH FILLING; WHOLE BODY CT; WHOLE BODY MRI; WHOLE BODY PET; IMAGE PROCESSING; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PROSTHESES AND ORTHOSES; WHOLE BODY IMAGING;

ARTIFACTS; FEMALE; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F18; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; METALS; MIDDLE AGED; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY AND COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PROSTHESES AND IMPLANTS; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; WHOLE BODY IMAGING;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84878223283     PISSN: 00071285     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1259/bjr.20120570     Document Type: Article

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