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MRI for attenuation correction in PET: methods and challenges

In current combined PET/MR systems, PET attenuation correction is based on MRI, since the small bore inside MRI systems and the strong magnetic field do not permit a rotating PET transmission source or a CT device to be integrated. Unlike CT measurements in PET/CT scanners, the MR signal is not dire...

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Autores principales: Wagenknecht, Gudrun, Kaiser, Hans-Jürgen, Mottaghy, Felix M., Herzog, Hans
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer-Verlag 2012
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3572388/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23179594
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10334-012-0353-4