Quantitative pulmonary single photon emission computed tomography for radiotherapy applications

Medical Physics

Volumn 26, Issue 8, 1999, Pages 1579-1588

  Scarfone, Christopher ^a,c   Jaszczak, Ronald J ^b   Gilland, David R ^a   Greer, Kim L ^a   Munley, Michael T ^a   Marks, Lawrence B ^a   Coleman, R Edward ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Dose response; Lung cancer; Pulmonary SPECT; Radiation treatment planning; Reconstruction algorithms

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; DISEASES; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; ITERATIVE METHODS; MAXIMUM PRINCIPLE; OPTIMIZATION; PARTICLE BEAMS; PHANTOMS; PHOTONS; RADIOTHERAPY;

DOSE RESPONSE; LUNG CANCER; PULMONARY SPECT; RADIATION TREATMENT PLANNING; RECONSTRUCTION ALGORITHMS;

SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY;

ARTICLE; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; DOSIMETRY; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; LUNG CANCER; LUNG SCINTISCANNING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; TREATMENT PLANNING;

EID: 0032788504     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.598653     Document Type: Article

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