Modeling the respiratory motion of solitary pulmonary nodules for investigating SPECT tumor imaging

IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference

Volumn 3, Issue , 2001, Pages 1371-1375

  Smyczynski, M S ^a   Segars, W P ^a   Narayanan, M V ^a   Pretorius, P H ^a   Gifford, H C ^a   Farncombe, T H ^a   Hoffman, E A ^a   Tsui, B M W ^a   King, M A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MEDICAL IMAGING; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PHOTONS; RESPIRATORY SYSTEM; THREE DIMENSIONAL; TUMORS;

LOCALIZATION RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTICS; LUNGS; RESPIRATORY MOTION; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; SOFTWARE PACKAGE SIMIND; SOLITARY PULMONARY MODULES;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 0035555250     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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