Study of the efficacy of respiratory gating in myocardial SPECT using the new 4-D NCAT phantom

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 49 I, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 675-679

  Segars, W Paul ^a   Tsui, Benjamin M W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Biomedical image processing; Biomedical nuclear imaging; Image analysis; Motion compensation; Respiratory system; Simulation software; Single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT)

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; CARDIOLOGY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MOTION COMPENSATION; RESPIRATORY SYSTEM; THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

BIOMEDICAL IMAGE PROCESSING; BIOMEDICAL NUCLEAR IMAGING; CARDIAC TORSO PHANTOM; MYOCARDIAL; NONUNIFORM RATIONAL B-SPLINES; RESPIRATORY GATING; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 0036624635     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2002.1039548     Document Type: Article

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