Simultaneously acquired MR/PET images compared with sequential MR/PET and PET/CT: Alignment quality

Radiology

Volumn 268, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 190-199

  Brendle, Cornelia B ^a   Schmidt, Holger ^a   Fleischer, Sabrina ^a   Braeuning, Uli H ^a   Pfannenberg, Christina A ^a   Schwenzer, Nina F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL CANCER; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLADDER CANCER; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; INFORMED CONSENT; INSTITUTIONAL REVIEW; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LUNG CANCER; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

ABDOMEN; ADULT; AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTIFACTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY AND COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; QUALITY CONTROL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 84879923493     PISSN: 00338419     EISSN: 15271315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/radiol.13121838     Document Type: Article

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