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Whole-body PET/MRI of Pediatric Patients: The Details That Matter
Published on: December 19, 2017
MR-Based PET attenuation correction for PET/MR imaging
Ilja Bezrukov1, Frédéric Mantlik, Holger Schmidt
1Department of Preclinical Imaging and Radiopharmacy, Laboratory for Preclinical Imaging and Imaging Technology of the Werner Siemens-Foundation, Eberhard Karls University, Tübingen, Germany.
Abstract:
Recent progress has allowed hybrid positron emission tomography/magnetic resonance (PET/MR) systems to make the transition from research prototypes to systems with full potential for clinical imaging. Options for directly measuring the attenuation maps, as is possible with PET/computed tomography or PET transmission scans, are not included in PET/MR scanners. New methods to compute attenuation maps from MR data have therefore been developed.
