Thresholding in PET images of static and moving targets

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 50, Issue 24, 2005, Pages 5969-5982

  Yaremko, Brian ^a   Riauka, Terence ^a   Robinson, Don ^a   Murray, Brad ^a   Alexander, Abraham ^a   McEwan, Alexander ^a   Roa, Wilson ^a  

^a CROSS CANCER INSTITUTE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA ACQUISITION; ONCOLOGY; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; TISSUE; TOXICITY; TUMORS;

NON-SMALL SCALE LUNG CANCER; TISSUE TOXICITY; TREATMENT PLANNING; TUMOR MISSION;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

TRACER;

ARTICLE; DATA ANALYSIS; FEASIBILITY STUDY; IMAGING SYSTEM; LUNG NON SMALL CELL CANCER; OSCILLATION; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SIMULATION; TREATMENT PLANNING; TUMOR VOLUME;

ARTIFACTS; CARCINOMA, NON-SMALL-CELL LUNG; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RESPIRATION;

EID: 29144536737     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/50/24/014     Document Type: Article

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