Field of view extension and truncation correction for MR-based human attenuation correction in simultaneous MR/PET imaging

Medical Physics

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 2014, Pages

  Blumhagen, Jan O ^a   Braun, Harald ^b   Ladebeck, Ralf ^a   Fenchel, Matthias ^a   Faul, David ^c   Scheffler, Klaus ^d,e   Quick, Harald H ^b  

^a SIEMENS AG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^c SIEMENS CORPORATE RESEARCH   (United States)

^d MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL CYBERNETICS   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

attenuation correction; distortion correction; FoV extension; FoV truncation; MR PET

Indexed keywords

ITERATIVE METHODS;

ATTENUATION CORRECTION; DISTORTION CORRECTION; FOV EXTENSION; FOV TRUNCATION; MR/PET;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18; DIAGNOSTIC AGENT;

ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; ATTENUATION; ATTENUATION CORRECTION; BODY MASS; BODY REGIONS; BODY WEIGHT; BREAST CARCINOMA; CANCER OF UNKNOWN PRIMARY SITE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; ELECTRON SPIN RESONANCE; FEMALE; FIELD OF VIEW EXTENSION; HUMAN; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGING AND DISPLAY; LUNG; MAGNETIC FIELD; MALE; MANTLE CELL LYMPHOMA; MEASUREMENT ACCURACY; MELANOMA; MULTIMODAL IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATIENT POSITIONING; PHEOCHROMOCYTOMA; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PYREXIA IDIOPATHICA; RADIOACTIVITY; SEMINOMA; THYROID CARCINOMA; WHOLE BODY IMAGING; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; IMAGE PROCESSING; METHODOLOGY; TIME;

FEMALE; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F18; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MULTIMODAL IMAGING; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; TIME FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84894476998     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.4861097     Document Type: Article

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