Technical and methodological aspects of PET/MR

Clinical and Translational Imaging

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 11-16

  Ziegler, Sibylle I ^a   Delso, Gaspar ^b  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

MR compatible PET; PET MR systems; Quantification

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ANALYTICAL EQUIPMENT; ATTENUATION; CRYSTAL; DETECTOR; HUMAN; MAGNET; MAGNETIC FIELD; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; PET SCANNER; PHOTON; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOFREQUENCY; REVIEW; SCINTILLATOR CRYSTAL; SIGNAL DETECTION; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

EID: 84885474275     PISSN: 22815872     EISSN: 22817565     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s40336-013-0011-5     Document Type: Review

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