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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 27, 2015
Filed:
Dec. 23, 2013
Charles William Stearns, Milwaukee, WI (US);
Scott David Wollenweber, Waukesha, WI (US);
David M. Goldhaber, Shorewood, WI (US);
Charles William Stearns, Milwaukee, WI (US);
Scott David Wollenweber, Waukesha, WI (US);
David M. Goldhaber, Shorewood, WI (US);
GENERAL ELECTRIC CORPORATION, Schenectady, NY (US);
Abstract
A method for attenuation correction of a plurality of time-gated PET images of a moving structure includes establishing an ACF matrix, based on a baseline MR image of the structure; developing a plurality of image transforms, each of the image transforms registering the baseline MR image to a respective cine MR image of the moving structure; applying each of the image transforms to the ACF matrix to generate a corresponding cine ACF matrix; time-correlating each of the cine MR images, and its corresponding cine ACF matrix, to one of the plurality of time-gated PET data sets; and producing from each of the time-gated PET data sets an attenuation-corrected time-gated PET image.