An Efficient Approach to Perform MR-Assisted PET Data Optimization in Simultaneous PET/MR Neuroimaging Studies

A main advantage of PET is that it provides quantitative measures of the radiotracer concentration, but its accuracy is confounded by factors including attenuation, subject motion, and limited spatial resolution. Using the information from one simultaneously acquired morphologic MR sequence with embedded navigators for MR motion correction (MC), we propose an efficient method, MR-assisted PET data optimization (MaPET), for attenuation correction...