Influence and compensation of truncation artifacts in MR-based attenuation correction in PET/MR

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 32, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 2056-2063

  Schramm, G ^a,b   Langner, J ^a   Hofheinz, F ^a   Petr, J ^a   Lougovski, A ^a   Beuthien Baumann, B ^c   Platzek, I ^c   Van Den Hoff, J ^a,c  

^a INSTITUTE OF ION BEAM PHYSICS AND MATERIALS RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL CARL GUSTAV CARUS   (Germany)

Author keywords

Attenuation correction; positron emission tomography magnetic resonance imaging (PET MRI); reduced field of view (FOV); truncation compensation

Indexed keywords

ATTENUATION CORRECTION; ATTENUATION MAPS; FIELD OF VIEWS; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY (PET); POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY/MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING (PET/MRI); STANDARDIZED UPTAKE VALUES; TRUNCATION COMPENSATIONS; VOLUME OF INTEREST;

MAGNETIC RESONANCE; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

ALGORITHMS;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; ATTENUATION; BLADDER; CLINICAL ARTICLE; HEART MUSCLE; HUMAN; KIDNEY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; TRUNK;

ARTIFACTS; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NEOPLASMS; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; WHOLE BODY IMAGING;

EID: 84887843835     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMI.2013.2272660     Document Type: Article

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