Feasibility of simultaneous whole-brain imaging on an integrated PET-MRI system using an enhanced 2-point Dixon attenuation correction method

Frontiers in Neuroscience

Volumn 9, Issue JAN, 2015, Pages

  Anazodo, Udunna C ^a,b   Thiessen, Jonathan D ^a,b   Ssali, Tracy ^a,b   Mandel, Jonathan ^c   Günther, Matthias ^d   Butler, John ^a   Pavlosky, William ^c   Prato, Frank S ^a,b   Thompson, R Terry ^a,b   St Lawrence, Keith S ^a,b  

^a LAWSON HEALTH RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^c ST JOSEPH S HEALTH CENTRE   (Canada)

^d FRAUNHOFER MEVIS   (Germany)

Author keywords

18F fluorodexoyglucose; Arterial spin labeling; ASL; Attenuation correction; Cerebral blood flow; FDG; Glucose uptake; PET MRI

Indexed keywords

FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN MAPPING; BRAIN REGION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEMALE; GLUCOSE TRANSPORT; HUMAN; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING DERIVED ATTENUATION CORRECTION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PET-MRI SCANNER; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PSEUDO CONTINUOUS ARTERIAL SPIN LABELING; RADIATION ATTENUATION; RELATIVE GLUCOSE UPTAKE; SPIN LABELING; WHOLE BODY MRI; WHOLE BODY PET;

EID: 84921718716     PISSN: 16624548     EISSN: 1662453X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnins.2014.00434     Document Type: Article

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