MR-based attenuation correction methods for improved PET quantification in lesions within bone and susceptibility artifact regions

Journal of Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 54, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 1768-1774

  Bezrukov, Ilja ^a,b   Schmidt, Holger ^a   Mantlik, Frédéric ^a,b   Schwenzer, Nina ^a   Brendle, Cornelia ^a   Schölkopf, Bernhard ^b   Pichler, Bernd J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS   (Germany)

Author keywords

Atlas; Attenuation correction; MR based attenuation correction; PET MR; Quantitative imaging; Segmentation; Susceptibility artifacts

Indexed keywords

CONTRAST MEDIUM; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18;

ADULT; AGED; ANALYTICAL ERROR; ANALYTICAL PARAMETERS; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT REDUCTION; BONE LESION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SOFT TISSUE DISEASE; STANDARDIZED UPTAKE VALUE; WHOLE BODY MRI; WHOLE BODY PET; ARTIFACT; ATLAS; ATTENUATION CORRECTION; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; BONE TUMOR; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MR-BASED ATTENUATION CORRECTION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PET/MR; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; QUANTITATIVE IMAGING; SCINTISCANNING; SEGMENTATION; SUSCEPTIBILITY ARTIFACTS; YOUNG ADULT; PROCEDURES;

ATLAS; ATTENUATION CORRECTION; MR-BASED ATTENUATION CORRECTION; PET/MR; QUANTITATIVE IMAGING; SEGMENTATION; SUSCEPTIBILITY ARTIFACTS;

ADULT; AGED; ARTIFACTS; BONE NEOPLASMS; DISEASE SUSCEPTIBILITY; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84891688471     PISSN: 01615505     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2967/jnumed.112.113209     Document Type: Article

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