<scp>MR</scp>‐based truncation and attenuation correction in integrated <scp>PET</scp>/<scp>MR</scp> hybrid imaging using <scp>HUGE</scp> with continuous table motion

Abstract

The HUGE method for truncation correction combined with continuous table movement extends the lateral MR field-of-view and effectively reduces truncations along the outer contours of the patient's arms in whole-body PET/MR imaging. HUGE as a fully MR-based approach is independent of the choice of radiotracer, thus also offering robust truncation correction in patients that are not injected with Fluordesoxyglucose (FDG) as radiotracer. Therefore, this method improves the standard Dixon MR-based attenuation correction and PET image quantification in whole-body PET/MR imaging applications.