Towards improved hardware component attenuation correction in PET/MR hybrid imaging

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 58, Issue 22, 2013, Pages 8021-8040

  Paulus, D H ^a   Tellmann, L ^b   Quick, H H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^b FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HARDWARE; OPTIMIZATION; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

ACTIVITY CONCENTRATION; ATTENUATION CORRECTION; HARDWARE COMPONENTS; LINEAR ATTENUATION COEFFICIENTS; POSITION DETERMINATION; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY/COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIES; RADIO-FREQUENCY COIL; SYSTEMATIC EVALUATION;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

ARTICLE; EQUIPMENT; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; METHODOLOGY; MULTIMODAL IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MULTIMODAL IMAGING; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 84896521420     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/58/22/8021     Document Type: Article

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