Comparison of 4-class and continuous fat/water methods for whole-body, mr-based PET attenuation correction

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 60, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 3391-3398

  Wollenweber, S D ^a   Ambwani, S ^a   Lonn, A H R ^b   Shanbhag, D D ^c   Thiruvenkadam, S ^c   Kaushik, S ^c   Mullick, R ^c   Qian, H ^d   Delso, G ^e   Wiesinger, F ^f  

^a GE HEALTHCARE   (United States)

^b GE HEALTHCARE   (United Kingdom)

^c GE GLOBAL RESEARCH   (India)

^d GE GLOBAL RESEARCH   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^f GE GLOBAL RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Image analysis; Magnetic resonance imaging; Positron emission tomography; Reconstruction algorithms

Indexed keywords

ATTENUATION CORRECTION; FDG-PET; PET ATTENUATION; RECONSTRUCTION ALGORITHMS; STANDARD UPTAKE VALUES; UPTAKE VALUES; WHOLE-BODY;

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MODEL REFERENCE ADAPTIVE CONTROL; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 84885947420     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2013.2278759     Document Type: Article

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