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PET/MRI Attenuation Estimation in the Lung: A Review of Past, Present, and Potential Techniques

Lillington, J; Brusaferri, L; Kläser, K; Shmueli, K; Neji, R; Hutton, BF; Fraioli, F; ... Atkinson, D; + view all (2020) PET/MRI Attenuation Estimation in the Lung: A Review of Past, Present, and Potential Techniques. Medical Physics , 47 (2) pp. 790-811. 10.1002/mp.13943. Green open access

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Abstract

Positron emission tomography/magnetic resonance imaging (PET/MRI) potentially offers several advantages over positron emission tomography/computed tomography (PET/CT), for example, no CT radiation dose and soft tissue images from MR acquired at the same time as the PET. However, obtaining accurate linear attenuation correction (LAC) factors for the lung remains difficult in PET/MRI. LACs depend on electron density and in the lung, these vary significantly both within an individual and from person to person. Current commercial practice is to use a single-valued population-based lung LAC, and better estimation is needed to improve quantification. Given the under-appreciation of lung attenuation estimation as an issue, the inaccuracy of PET quantification due to the use of single-valued lung LACs, the unique challenges of lung estimation, and the emerging status of PET/MRI scanners in lung disease, a review is timely. This paper highlights past and present methods, categorising them into segmentation, atlas/mapping, and emission-based schemes. Potential strategies for future developments are also presented.

Type: Article
Title: PET/MRI Attenuation Estimation in the Lung: A Review of Past, Present, and Potential Techniques
Location: United States
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.1002/mp.13943
Publisher version: https://doi.org/10.1002/mp.13943
Language: English
Additional information: © 2019 The Authors. Medical Physics published by Wiley Periodicals, Inc. on behalf of American Association of Physicists in Medicine. This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Keywords: attenuation estimation, lung, magnetic resonance imaging, medical imaging, positron emission tomography
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URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10087955
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