Clinical Evaluation of Zero-Echo-Time Attenuation Correction for Brain <sup>18</sup>F-FDG PET/MRI: Comparison with Atlas Attenuation Correction

Tetsuro Sekine, Edwin E. G. W. ter Voert, Geoffrey Warnock, Alfred Buck, Martin W. Huellner, Patrick Veit‐Haibach, Gaspar Delso

Journal of Nuclear Medicine · 2016 · 108 citations · 29 references

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Abstract

The ZTE-AC could provide more accurate AC than clinical atlas-AC by improving the estimation of head-skull attenuation. The misclassification in mastoid and nasal areas must be addressed to prevent the overestimation of PET in regions near the skull base.

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