Integrated PET/MR imaging: Automatic attenuation correction of flexible RF coils

Medical Physics

Volumn 40, Issue 8, 2013, Pages

  Kartmann, René ^a   Paulus, Daniel H ^a   Braun, Harald ^a   Aklan, Bassim ^a   Ziegler, Susanne ^a   Navalpakkam, Bharath K ^a   Lentschig, Markus ^b   Quick, Harald H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^b ZEMODI Zentrum für moderne Diagnostik   (Germany)

Author keywords

attenuation correction (AC); B spline registration; hybrid imaging; radiofrequency (RF) surface coil; simultaneous whole body PET MR

Indexed keywords

ERRORS; INTERPOLATION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHANTOMS;

ATTENUATION CORRECTION; B SPLINES; HYBRID IMAGING; SURFACE COILS; WHOLE BODY;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

COD LIVER OIL;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENUATION; BODY SURFACE; CASE REPORT; HUMAN; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; LIVER; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; PET SCANNER; PHANTOM; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOFREQUENCY; ALGORITHM; AUTOMATION; EQUIPMENT; FEMALE; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; MULTIMODAL IMAGING; RADIOFREQUENCY RADIATION; DEVICES;

ADULT; ALGORITHMS; AUTOMATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MULTIMODAL IMAGING; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RADIO WAVES;

EID: 84881635416     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.4812685     Document Type: Article

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24. See supplementary material at http://dx.doi.org/10.1118/1.4812685 E-MPHYA6-40-030308 for a detailed discussion of the registration error caused by non-rigid deformation of solid structures of the RF coils.
25. See supplementary material at http://dx.doi.org/10.1118/1.4812685 E-MPHYA6-40-030308 for a detailed description of the discrimination between multiple RF coils by the algorithm.