Completion of a truncated attenuation image from the attenuated PET emission data

Positron emission tomographs (PET) are currently almost exclusively designed as hybrid systems. The current standard is the PET/CT combination, while prototype PET/MRI systems are being studied by several research groups. One problem in these systems is that the transaxial field of view of the second system is smaller than that of the PET camera. The problem is limited for PET/CT, it is more pronounced in PET/MRI. Because this second system provides the image for attenuation correction, the smaller field of view causes truncation of the attenuation map. In this paper, we propose a maximum-a-posteriori algorithm for estimating the missing part of the attenuation map from the PET emission data.

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