Clinical Evaluation of Zero-Echo-Time MR Imaging for the Segmentation of the Skull

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Authors

Gaspar Delso

Florian Wiesinger · gec-co Global Engineering & Consulting (Germany)

Laura Sacolick · gec-co Global Engineering & Consulting (Germany)

Sandeep Kaushik · General Electric (United States)

Dattesh Shanbhag · General Electric (United States)

Martin Hüllner · University of Zurich

Patrick Veit‐Haibach · University of Zurich

Abstract

This is the first, to our knowledge, clinical evaluation of skull bone identification based on a ZTE sequence. The results suggest that proton density-weighted ZTE imaging is an efficient means of obtaining high-resolution maps of bone tissue with sufficient anatomic accuracy for, for example, PET attenuation correction.

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Published in: Journal of Nuclear Medicine

Volume 56, Issue 3, pp. 417-422

DOI: 10.2967/jnumed.114.149997

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Clinical Evaluation of Zero-Echo-Time MR Imaging for the Segmentation of the Skull

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