PET-MRI: a review of challenges and solutions in the development of integrated multimodality imaging

S Vandenberghe, PK Marsden - Physics in Medicine & Biology, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
The integration of positron emission tomography (PET) and magnetic resonance imaging
(MRI) has been an ongoing research topic for the last 20 years. This paper gives an …

Content-based medical image retrieval: a survey of applications to multidimensional and multimodality data

A Kumar, J Kim, W Cai, M Fulham, D Feng - Journal of digital imaging, 2013 - Springer
Medical imaging is fundamental to modern healthcare, and its widespread use has resulted
in the creation of image databases, as well as picture archiving and communication systems …

[PDF][PDF] A comparative study of medical imaging techniques

H Kasban, MAM El-Bendary… - International Journal of …, 2015 - ilearn.th-deg.de
Abstract Medical Imaging Techniques (MITs) are non-invasive methods for looking inside
the body without opening up the body surgically. It used to assist diagnosis or treatment of …

Tissue classification as a potential approach for attenuation correction in whole-body PET/MRI: evaluation with PET/CT data

A Martinez-Möller, M Souvatzoglou… - Journal of nuclear …, 2009 - Soc Nuclear Med
Attenuation correction (AC) of whole-body PET data in combined PET/MRI tomographs is
expected to be a technical challenge. In this study, a potential solution based on a …

Simultaneous PET-MRI: a new approach for functional and morphological imaging

MS Judenhofer, HF Wehrl, DF Newport, C Catana… - Nature medicine, 2008 - nature.com
Noninvasive imaging at the molecular level is an emerging field in biomedical research. This
paper introduces a new technology synergizing two leading imaging methodologies …

Design and performance evaluation of a whole-body Ingenuity TF PET–MRI system

H Zaidi, N Ojha, M Morich, J Griesmer… - Physics in Medicine …, 2011 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract The Ingenuity TF PET–MRI is a newly released whole-body hybrid PET–MR
imaging system with a Philips time-of-flight GEMINI TF PET and Achieva 3T X-series MRI …

MRI-based attenuation correction for PET/MRI: a novel approach combining pattern recognition and atlas registration

M Hofmann, F Steinke, V Scheel… - Journal of nuclear …, 2008 - Soc Nuclear Med
For quantitative PET information, correction of tissue photon attenuation is mandatory.
Generally in conventional PET, the attenuation map is obtained from a transmission scan …

Simultaneous MR/PET Imaging of the Human Brain: Feasibility Study1

HPW Schlemmer, BJ Pichler, M Schmand, Z Burbar… - Radiology, 2008 - pubs.rsna.org
The purpose of this study was to apply a magnetic resonance (MR) imaging–compatible
positron emission tomographic (PET) detector technology for simultaneous MR/PET imaging …

PET/MR imaging: technical aspects and potential clinical applications

DA Torigian, H Zaidi, TC Kwee, B Saboury, JK Udupa… - Radiology, 2013 - pubs.rsna.org
Instruments that combine positron emission tomography (PET) and magnetic resonance
(MR) imaging have recently been assembled for use in humans, and may have diagnostic …

Recent developments in PET detector technology

TK Lewellen - Physics in Medicine & Biology, 2008 - iopscience.iop.org
Positron emission tomography (PET) is a tool for metabolic imaging that has been utilized
since the earliest days of nuclear medicine. A key component of such imaging systems is the …