Image processing methods for PET/MR multi-modality imaging: Initial study regarding binding of MR images

Author

Conceicao, Raquel C. ; Tourais, Joao L. ; Canas, Liane S. ; Delso, G. ; Caldeira, L.

Author_Institution

Inst. de Biofisica e Eng. Biomed., Univ. de Lisboa, Biomédica, Portugal

fYear

2013

fDate

Oct. 27 2013-Nov. 2 2013

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

2

Abstract

The combination of Positron Emission Tomography (PET) and Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) has gained attention over the past five years due to the complementary advantages of these modalities [1]. Whole-Body (WB) PET/MR systems for clinical applications still have room for improvement regarding image quality optimization. In this paper, the binding process of MR images is addressed since MR images are processed to obtain a continuous 3D WB-image. Issues with automatic binding algorithms are identified, and preliminary post-processing algorithms are proposed.

Keywords

biomedical MRI; medical image processing; positron emission tomography; 3D WB-image; PET-MR multimodality imaging; automatic binding algorithms; clinical applications; image processing; image quality; magnetic resonance imaging; positron emission tomography; whole-body PET-MR systems; Algorithm design and analysis; Biomedical imaging; Coils; Image quality; Magnetic resonance imaging; Positron emission tomography;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference (NSS/MIC), 2013 IEEE

Conference_Location

Seoul

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-0533-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/NSSMIC.2013.6829139

Filename

6829139