4D-CT imaging of a volume influenced by respiratory motion on multi-slice CT

Medical Physics

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 333-340

  Pan, Tinsu ^a   Lee, Ting Yim ^b   Rietzel, Eike ^c   Chen, George T Y ^c  

^a GE HEALTHCARE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^c MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

4D CT; Gating and gated imaging; Motion artifacts; Motion characterization

Indexed keywords

DATA ACQUISITION; GATING AND FEEDING; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; MEDICAL IMAGING; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; RESPIRATORY MECHANICS; SCANNING;

CRANIAL CAUDAL DIRECTION; GATED IMAGING; MOTION ARTIFACT; MOTION CHARACTERIZATION; MULTIPLE ACQUISITIONS; REGISTRATION METHODS; RESPIRATORY MOTIONS; VARIAN MEDICAL SYSTEMS;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

ANATOMY; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; BREATHING; BREATHING PATTERN; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DEVICE; FOUR DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGING SYSTEM; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MOTION; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; X RAY;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 1242338927     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.1639993     Document Type: Article

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