Development of a Dynamic Model for the Lung Lobes and Airway Tree in the NCAT Phantom

IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference

Volumn 3, Issue , 2002, Pages 1858-1862

  Garrity, James M ^a   Segars, W Paul ^a,b   Knisley, Steven ^c   Tsui, Benjamin M W ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Airway tree; Phantom; Respiratory motion; Segmentation

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; PHYSIOLOGY; TUMORS;

LUNG LOBES;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

EID: 0142209422     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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