MR-based field-of-view extension in MR/PET: B0 homogenization using gradient enhancement (HUGE)

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 70, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 1047-1057

  Blumhagen, Jan O ^a,b   Ladebeck, Ralf ^a   Fenchel, Matthias ^a   Scheffler, Klaus ^b,c,d  

^a SIEMENS AG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BASEL   (Switzerland)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL CYBERNETICS   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

distortion correction; gradient nonlinearity; MR PET

Indexed keywords

ATTENUATION CORRECTION; DISTORTION CORRECTION; DISTORTION REDUCTION; GRADIENT NONLINEARITY; HARDWARE MODIFICATIONS; IN-PLANE DISTORTIONS; MR/PET; PHYSICAL RESTRICTION;

MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING;

ARM; ARTICLE; ATTENUATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MAGNETIC FIELD; MEASUREMENT; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; PHANTOM; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; SIMULATION;

B0 INHOMOGENEITY; DISTORTION CORRECTION; GRADIENT NONLINEARITY; MR/PET;

ALGORITHMS; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MULTIMODAL IMAGING; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; WHOLE BODY IMAGING;

EID: 84880664944     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: 15222594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.24555     Document Type: Article

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