Estimation of the Heart Respiratory Motion With Applications for Cone Beam Computed Tomography Imaging: A Simulation Study

IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 404-411

  Buliev, Ivan G ^a   Badea, Cristian T ^a,b   Kolitsi, Zoi ^a   Pallikarakis, Nicolas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cardiac imaging; Cone beam computed tomography (CBCT); Motion compensation

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CARDIOLOGY; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DATA ACQUISITION; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; IMAGE QUALITY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MOTION COMPENSATION; RESPIRATORY MECHANICS;

CARDIAC IMAGING; CONE BEAM COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY (CBCT); X-RAY PROJECTIONS;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BREATHING MECHANICS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; EVALUATION; FEASIBILITY STUDY; HEART; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); PHYSIOLOGY; RADIOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; VALIDATION STUDY;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFACTS; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; HEART; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOVEMENT; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RESPIRATORY MECHANICS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 1442313268     PISSN: 10897771     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TITB.2003.821336     Document Type: Article

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