Effect of respiratory gating on reducing lung motion artifacts in PET imaging of lung cancer

Medical Physics

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 366-371

  Nehmeh, S A ^a   Erdi, Y E ^a   Ling, C C ^a   Rosenzweig, K E ^a   Squire, O D ^a   Braban, L E ^a   Ford, E ^a   Sidhu, K ^a   Mageras, G S ^a   Larson, S M ^a   Humm, J L ^a  

^a MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

18F Fluorodeoxy glucose (FDG); Gated PET; Planning target volume (PTV); Positron emission tomography; Respiration; Standard uptake value (SUV)

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DATA ACQUISITION; DISEASES; PHANTOMS; POSITRONS; RADIOTHERAPY; RESPIRATORY MECHANICS;

ACCURATE MEASUREMENT; PLANNING TARGET VOLUMES; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY (PET); RADIATION TREATMENT PLANNING; RESPIRATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STANDARD UPTAKE VALUES; ^18F-FLUORODEOXY-GLUCOSE (FDG);

POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18;

ARTICLE; ARTIFACT REDUCTION; BREATHING; CASE REPORT; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; LUNG CANCER; MEASUREMENT; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RADIATION DOSE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TREATMENT PLANNING;

EID: 18344390040     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.1448824     Document Type: Article

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