The aim of this study was to evaluate and quantify the effect of improved attenuation correction including bone segmentation and truncation correction on 18F-FDG cardiac PET/MR imaging. Therefore, 32 cardiac patient data sets were reconstructed with different AC-maps and polar plots were generated and analyzed. The MR-based HUGE method for truncation correction combined with CT model-based bone segmentation resulted in a homogeneous 6% gain of PET signal across the myocardium compared to standard Dixon-VIBE imaging. The majority of observed AC-map artifacts did not significantly affect the quantitative assessment of the myocardium.
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