Improved UTE-based attenuation correction for cranial PET-MR using dynamic magnetic field monitoring

Medical Physics

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Aitken, A P ^a   Giese, D ^a   Tsoumpas, C ^a   Schleyer, P ^a   Kozerke, S ^a   Prieto, C ^a,b   Schaeffter, T ^a  

^a ST THOMAS HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

artifacts; attenuation correction; eddy currents; magnetic field monitoring; Magnetic resonance imaging; positron emission tomography; ultrashort echo time

Indexed keywords

CAMERAS; EDDY CURRENTS; ERRORS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS; MAGNETIC FIELD MEASUREMENT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHANTOMS; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; SPACE FLIGHT; TISSUE; TRAJECTORIES;

ARTIFACTS; ATTENUATION CORRECTION; DICE SIMILARITY MEASURES; DYNAMIC MAGNETIC FIELDS; K-SPACE TRAJECTORIES; MAGNETIC FIELD CAMERA; MAGNETIC FIELD MONITORING; ULTRASHORT ECHO TIME;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; ATTENUATION; BONE TISSUE; DYNAMICS; HUMAN; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IN VIVO STUDY; LEG; MAGNETIC FIELD; MONITORING; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PET-MRI SCANNER; PHANTOM; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; SHEEP; SIMULATION; SOFT TISSUE; ULTRASHORT ECHO TIME NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; METHODOLOGY; SCINTISCANNING; SKULL; THEORETICAL MODEL; TIME;

HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC FIELDS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; SKULL; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84892151779     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.4837315     Document Type: Article

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