Attenuation correction synthesis for hybrid PET-MR scanners: application to brain studies

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96505

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Burgos, N., Cardoso, M. Jorge., Thielemans, K., Modat, M., Pedemonte, S., Dickson, J., Barnes, A., Ahmed, R., Mahoney, C. J., Schott, J. M., Duncan, J. S., Atkinson, D., Arridge, S. R., Hutton, B. F. & Ourselin, S. (2014). Attenuation correction synthesis for hybrid PET-MR scanners: Application to brain studies. IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, 33 (12), 2332-2341.

Abstract

Attenuation correction is an essential requirement for quantification of positron emission tomography (PET) data. In PET/CT acquisition systems, attenuation maps are derived from computed tomography (CT) images. However, in hybrid PET/MR scanners, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) images do not directly provide a patient-specific attenuation map. The aim of the proposed work is to improve attenuation correction for PET/MR scanners by generating synthetic CTs and attenuation maps. The synthetic images are generated through a multi-atlas information propagation scheme, locally matching the MRI-derived patient's morphology to a database of MRI/CT pairs, using a local image similarity measure. Results show significant improvements in CT synthesis and PET reconstruction accuracy when compared to a segmentation method using an ultrashort-echo-time MRI sequence and to a simplified atlas-based method.

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http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/TMI.2014.2340135