Evaluation and automatic correction of metal-implant-induced artifacts in MR-based attenuation correction in whole-body PET/MR imaging

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 59, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 2713-2726

  Schramm, G ^a,b   Maus, J ^a   Hofheinz, F ^a   Petr, J ^a   Lougovski, A ^a   Beuthien Baumann, B ^c   Platzek, I ^c   Van Den Hoff, J ^a,c  

^a INSTITUTE OF ION BEAM PHYSICS AND MATERIALS RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL CARL GUSTAV CARUS   (Germany)

Author keywords

attenuation correction; metal artifacts; PET MR

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; ERRORS; STATISTICS;

ACTIVITY CONCENTRATION; ATTENUATION COEFFICIENT; ATTENUATION CORRECTION; AUTOMATIC CORRECTIONS; METAL ARTIFACTS; QUANTITATIVE INFLUENCE; SEGMENTATION ERROR; STANDARD DEVIATION;

METALS;

METAL;

ALGORITHM; ARTIFACT; AUTOMATION; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; NEOPLASM; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PROCEDURES; PROSTHESES AND ORTHOSES; SCINTISCANNING; WHOLE BODY IMAGING;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFACTS; AUTOMATION; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; METALS; NEOPLASMS; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PROSTHESES AND IMPLANTS; WHOLE BODY IMAGING;

EID: 84900487306     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/59/11/2713     Document Type: Article

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