Abstract #0147

MR-Based Compensation of Respiratory Motion Artifacts of In-Vivo PET Images Acquired on a Simultaneous Whole-Body MR/PET System

Christian Wrslin¹, Holger Schmidt¹,², Petros Martirosian¹, Lars Stegger³, Nina Schwenzer¹

¹Dept. of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, University Hospital Tbingen, D-72076 Tbingen, Germany; ²Department of Preclinical Imaging and Radiopharmacy, University Hospital Tbingen, Tbingen, Germany; ³Clinic und Polyclinic of Nuklear Medicine, University Hospital Mnster, Mnster, Germany

To compensate for respiratory motion artefacts in PET images while maintaining full SNR using simultaneously acquired MR images.