Incorporation of time-of-flight information reduces metal artifacts in simultaneous positron emission tomography/magnetic resonance imaging: A simulation study

Investigative Radiology

Volumn 50, Issue 7, 2015, Pages 423-429

  Davison, Helen ^a,b   Ter Voert, Edwin E G W ^a   De Galiza Barbosa, Felipe ^a   Veit Haibach, Patrick ^a   Delso, Gaspar ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b ROYAL UNITED HOSPITALS BATH NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^c GE HEALTHCARE   (United States)

Author keywords

artifacts; image quality; PET MR; time of flight

Indexed keywords

FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18; METAL;

ADULT; AGED; ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; FEMALE; FEMUR HEAD; HISTOGRAM; HUMAN; HUMERUS HEAD; IMAGE QUALITY; LUMBAR SPINE; MALE; MAXILLA; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION; STERNUM; THORACIC SPINE; THORAX; WHOLE BODY SCANNER; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIMODAL IMAGING; NEOPLASMS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PROCEDURES; PROSTHESES AND ORTHOSES; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; VERY ELDERLY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ARTIFACTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; METALS; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIMODAL IMAGING; NEOPLASMS; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PROSTHESES AND IMPLANTS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84931828068     PISSN: 00209996     EISSN: 15360210     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/RLI.0000000000000146     Document Type: Article

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