Impact of time-of-flight PET on quantification errors in MR imaging–based attenuation correction

A Mehranian, H Zaidi - Journal of Nuclear Medicine, 2015 - Soc Nuclear Med
Time-of-flight (TOF) PET/MR imaging is an emerging imaging technology with great
capabilities offered by TOF to improve image quality and lesion detectability. We assessed …

Improvement of attenuation correction in time-of-flight PET/MR imaging with a positron-emitting source

P Mollet, V Keereman, J Bini… - Journal of Nuclear …, 2014 - Soc Nuclear Med
Quantitative PET imaging relies on accurate attenuation correction. Recently, there has
been growing interest in combining state-of-the-art PET systems with MR imaging in a …

Clinical assessment of emission-and segmentation-based MR-guided attenuation correction in whole-body time-of-flight PET/MR imaging

A Mehranian, H Zaidi - Journal of Nuclear Medicine, 2015 - Soc Nuclear Med
The joint maximum-likelihood reconstruction of activity and attenuation (MLAA) for emission-
based attenuation correction has regained attention since the advent of time-of-flight …

Comparison of MR-based attenuation correction and CT-based attenuation correction of whole-body PET/MR imaging

D Izquierdo-Garcia, SJ Sawiak, K Knesaurek… - European journal of …, 2014 - Springer
Purpose The objective of this study was to evaluate the performance of the built-in MR-
based attenuation correction (MRAC) included in the combined whole-body Ingenuity TF …

MRI‐guided attenuation correction in torso PET/MRI: Assessment of segmentation‐, atlas‐, and deep learning‐based approaches in the presence of outliers

H Arabi, H Zaidi - Magnetic resonance in medicine, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose We compare the performance of three commonly used MRI‐guided attenuation
correction approaches in torso PET/MRI, namely segmentation‐, atlas‐, and deep learning …

MRI-guided attenuation correction in whole-body PET/MR: assessment of the effect of bone attenuation

A Akbarzadeh, MR Ay, A Ahmadian… - Annals of nuclear …, 2013 - Springer
Abstract Objective Hybrid PET/MRI presents many advantages in comparison with its
counterpart PET/CT in terms of improved soft-tissue contrast, decrease in radiation …

[HTML][HTML] Quantitative accuracy of attenuation correction in the Philips Ingenuity TF whole-body PET/MR system: a direct comparison with transmission-based …

G Schramm, J Langner, F Hofheinz, J Petr… - … Resonance Materials in …, 2013 - Springer
Objective Evaluation of the quantitative accuracy of MR-based attenuation correction
(MRAC) in the Philips Ingenuity TF whole-body PET/MR. Materials and methods In 13 …

Investigating the state-of-the-art in whole-body MR-based attenuation correction: an intra-individual, inter-system, inventory study on three clinical PET/MR systems

T Beyer, ML Lassen, R Boellaard, G Delso… - … Resonance Materials in …, 2016 - Springer
Objective We assess inter-and intra-subject variability of magnetic resonance (MR)-based
attenuation maps (MRμMaps) of human subjects for state-of-the-art positron emission …

Quantitative analysis of MRI-guided attenuation correction techniques in time-of-flight brain PET/MRI

A Mehranian, H Arabi, H Zaidi - Neuroimage, 2016 - Elsevier
ABSTRACT Purpose In quantitative PET/MR imaging, attenuation correction (AC) of PET
data is markedly challenged by the need of deriving accurate attenuation maps from MR …

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

H Davison, EEGW Ter Voert… - Investigative …, 2015 - journals.lww.com
Objectives This study aimed to describe and evaluate the influence of time-of-flight (TOF)
information on metal artifact reduction in positron emission tomography (PET) image quality …