On the quantification accuracy, homogeneity, and stability of simultaneous positron emission tomography/magnetic resonance imaging systems

Investigative Radiology

Volumn 49, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 373-381

  Schmidt, Holger ^a   Schwenzer, Nina F ^a   Bezrukov, Ilja ^a,b   Mantlik, Frederic ^a,b   Kolb, Armin ^a   Kupferschläger, Jurgen ^a   Pichler, Bernd J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS   (Germany)

Author keywords

MRI; performance; PET; simultaneous multimodality imaging; stability

Indexed keywords

FLUORINE 18;

ARTICLE; BOLD SIGNAL; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; COMPUTER ASSISTED EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; MEASUREMENT ACCURACY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PERFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; PET-CT SCANNER; PET-MRI SCANNER; PHANTOM; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; WHOLE BODY IMAGING; WHOLE BODY SCANNER; BRAIN; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DEVICES; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; MULTIMODAL IMAGING;

BRAIN; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MULTIMODAL IMAGING; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; WHOLE BODY IMAGING;

EID: 84900476863     PISSN: 00209996     EISSN: 15360210     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/RLI.0000000000000021     Document Type: Article

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