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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 26, 2016
Filed:
Nov. 27, 2013
Christopher Glielmi, Hoboken, NJ (US);
Christian Geppert, Hoboken, NJ (US);
David Faul, Brooklyn, NY (US);
Matthias Fenchel, Erlangen, DE;
Christopher Glielmi, Hoboken, NJ (US);
Christian Geppert, Hoboken, NJ (US);
David Faul, Brooklyn, NY (US);
Matthias Fenchel, Erlangen, DE;
Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc., Malvern, PA (US);
Siemens Aktiengesellschaft, Munich, DE;
Abstract
A method of attenuation correction for a positron emission tomography (PET) system includes obtaining PET scan data representative of a volume scanned by the PET system, obtaining a plurality of magnetic resonance (MR) scan data sets representative of the volume, each MR scan data set being acquired in a respective time period during acquisition of the PET scan data by the PET system, detecting motion of the volume that occurred during the acquisition of the PET scan data based on an assessment of the plurality of MR scan data sets, the PET scan data, or the plurality of MR scan data sets and the PET scan data, determining attenuation correction data from the plurality of MR scan data sets based on the detected motion for alignment of the attenuation correction data and the PET scan data, and correcting the PET scan data with the attenuation correction data.