Skull segmentation of UTE MR images by probabilistic neural network for attenuation correction in PET/MR

Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment

Volumn 702, Issue , 2013, Pages 114-116

  Santos Ribeiro, A ^a,b   Rota Kops, E ^b   Herzog, H ^b   Almeida, P ^a  

^a Institute of Biophysics and Biomedical Engineering   (Portugal)

^b FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Attenuation correction; Bone segmentation; Dice coefficients; PET MRI; Probabilistic neural network; Ultrashort echo time

Indexed keywords

BONE; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NEURAL NETWORKS; OPTIMIZATION;

ATTENUATION CORRECTION; BONE SEGMENTATION; DICE COEFFICIENT; PET/MRI; PROBABILISTIC NEURAL NETWORKS; ULTRASHORT ECHO TIME;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 84890126127     PISSN: 01689002     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nima.2012.09.005     Document Type: Article

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