Relative role of motion and PSF compensation in whole-body oncologic PET-MR imaging

Medical Physics

Volumn 41, Issue 4, 2014, Pages

  Petibon, Yoann ^a   Huang, Chuan ^a,b   Ouyang, Jinsong ^a,b   Reese, Timothy G ^a,b   Li, Quanzheng ^a,b   Syrkina, Aleksandra ^a,b   Chen, Yen Lin ^a,b   El Fakhri, Georges ^a,b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

motion correction; oncologic PET MRI; PSF modeling

Indexed keywords

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSIS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; ITERATIVE METHODS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OPTICAL TRANSFER FUNCTION; PHANTOMS; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RESPIRATORY MECHANICS; SCANNING; TUMORS;

ITERATIVE RECONSTRUCTION; MOTION CORRECTION; PARTIAL VOLUME EFFECT; PET MRIS; PSF MODEL; RECONSTRUCTION PROCESS; RECONSTRUCTION TECHNIQUES; STEADY STATE FREE PRECESSIONS;

THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18; GADOLINIUM;

ADULT; AGED; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; LIVER INJURY; LIVER SCINTISCANNING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTION; PET-MRI SCANNER; PHANTOM; POINT SPREAD FUNCTION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RADIOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; RESPIRATORY GATED IMAGING; SARCOMA; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SOFT TISSUE INJURY; STEADY STATE; WHOLE BODY CT; WHOLE BODY PET; BREATHING; DIAGNOSTIC USE; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); MULTIMODAL IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PROCEDURES; SCINTISCANNING; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; WHOLE BODY IMAGING;

AGED; ALGORITHMS; FEMALE; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F18; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOVEMENT; MULTIMODAL IMAGING; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RESPIRATION; SARCOMA; WHOLE BODY IMAGING;

EID: 84896956627     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.4868458     Document Type: Article

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