Phased attenuation correction in respiration correlated computed tomography/positron emitted tomography

Medical Physics

Volumn 33, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 1840-1847

  Nagel, C C A ^a   Bosmans, G ^a   Dekker, A L A J ^a   Ollers M C ^a   De Ruysscher, D K M ^a   Lambin, P ^a   Minken, A W H ^a   Lang, N ^b   Schafers K P ^b  

^a MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

4D imaging; Attenuation correction; CT PET; Respiration correlation

Indexed keywords

IMAGE ACQUISITION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; MEDICAL IMAGING; PHANTOMS; TUMORS;

4D IMAGING; ACTIVITY CONCENTRATION; ATTENUATION CORRECTION; IN-HOUSE BUILT SOFTWARE; LONGITUDINAL MOVEMENTS; RADIATION TREATMENT PLANNING; RESPIRATION-CORRELATED CT; RESPIRATORY SIGNALS;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; BREATHING; CALCULATION; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DATA ANALYSIS SOFTWARE; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGING SYSTEM; LUNG TUMOR; MOTION; PHANTOM; PHASED ATTENUATION CORRECTION; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RADIATION ATTENUATION; RADIATION DOSE; SIGNAL DETECTION;

EID: 33744799190     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.2198170     Document Type: Article

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