Quantitative evaluation of PET respiratory motion correction using real- time PET/MR simulated data

The impact of respiratory motion correction on quantitative accuracy in PET imaging is evaluated using real-time simulations for variable patient specific characteristics such as tumor malignancy and respiratory pattern. Respiratory patterns from real patients were acquired, with long quiescent motion periods (type-1) as commonly observed in most of the patients and with long term amplitude variability as it is expected under conditions of...