Abstract
Functional imaging, such as SPECT and PET, and structural imaging, such as CT and MRI, have long been used routinely as an aid to diagnosis and treatment assessment, often applied successively at various stages of the patient management pathway. Dual-modality imaging, also referred to as hybrid imaging, offers the combination of functional and structural data acquisition in a single scanning session with multiple advantages for the diagnostic decision process.
Keywords
- Attenuation Correction
- Hybrid Imaging
- Photon Attenuation
- Spatial Registration
- Transmission Compute Tomography
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Livieratos, L. (2012). Technical Challenges and Pitfalls in Hybrid Imaging. In: Fogelman, I., Gnanasegaran, G., van der Wall, H. (eds) Radionuclide and Hybrid Bone Imaging. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-02400-9_13
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