Continuous MR bone density measurement using water- and fat-suppressed projection imaging (WASPI) for PET attenuation correction in PET-MR
Huang C, Ouyang J, Reese T, Wu Y, Fakhri G, Ackerman J. Continuous MR bone density measurement using water- and fat-suppressed projection imaging (WASPI) for PET attenuation correction in PET-MR. Physics In Medicine And Biology 2015, 60: n369-n381. PMID: 26405761, PMCID: PMC4607313, DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/60/20/n369.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsAttenuation correctionUltrashort echo timeMR-based attenuation correctionProjection imagesPET attenuation correctionMR attenuation correctionPET-MRPulse sequenceEcho timeDensity variationsPET imagingCorrectionBone density variationWASPIDensity measurementsAttenuation variationsPhantomMR sequencesLack of signalPulseAttenuation