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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 20, 2012
Filed:
Sep. 17, 2009
Kirstin Jattke, Nürnburg, DE;
Ralf Ladebeck, Erlangen, DE;
Christian J. Michel, Lenoir City, TN (US);
Thorsten Speckner, Nürnberg, DE;
Kirstin Jattke, Nürnburg, DE;
Ralf Ladebeck, Erlangen, DE;
Christian J. Michel, Lenoir City, TN (US);
Thorsten Speckner, Nürnberg, DE;
Siemens Aktiengesellschaft, Munich, DE;
Abstract
A method is disclosed for at least partly determining and/or adapting an attenuation map used for attenuation correction of Positron Emission Tomography image data sets in a combined Magnetic Resonance-Positron Emission Tomography device. In at least one embodiment of the method, at least one one-dimensional magnetic resonance data set of a patient is recorded along one imaging direction; the boundaries of at least one part of the body of the patient intersected by the imaging direction are determined from the one-dimensional magnetic resonance data set; and the attenuation map is determined and/or adapted at least partly as a function of the boundaries determined.