Towards coronary plaque imaging using simultaneous PET-MR: A simulation study

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 59, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 1203-1222

  Petibon, Y ^a,b   El Fakhri, G ^a,c   Nezafat, R ^c,d   Johnson, N ^a   Brady, T ^a,c   Ouyang, J ^a,c  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^c HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^d BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

coronary plaque imaging; fat MR; motion correction; PET MR

Indexed keywords

ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CORONARY ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; EQUIPMENT; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; METHODOLOGY; MULTIMODAL IMAGING; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY STENOSIS; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MODELS, CARDIOVASCULAR; MULTIMODAL IMAGING; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84894538651     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/59/5/1203     Document Type: Article

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