Displacement-based binning of time-dependent computed tomography image data sets

Medical Physics

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 235-246

  Fitzpatrick, Mathew J ^a   Starkschall, George ^a   Antolak, John A ^a,e   Fu, Jun ^b   Shukla, Himanshu ^c,f   Keall, Paul J ^d   Klahr, Paul ^c   Mohan, Radhe ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

^b WESTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c PHILIPS RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (Germany)

^d VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

^f SIEMENS CORPORATE RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

4D CT imaging; Respiratory motion

Indexed keywords

IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MANUFACTURE; RESPIRATORY MECHANICS; SCANNING;

COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY IMAGES; CT IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; CT IMAGING; DISPLACEMENT-BASED; RADIATION TREATMENTS; RESPIRATORY CYCLE; RESPIRATORY MOTIONS; TREATMENT PLANNING SYSTEMS;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

ARTICLE; BREATHING; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TREATMENT PLANNING;

EID: 31044444598     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.2044427     Document Type: Article

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