Reducing respiratory motion artifacts in positron emission tomography through retrospective stacking

Medical Physics

Volumn 33, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 2632-2641

  Thorndyke, Brian ^a   Schreibmann, Eduard ^a   Koong, Albert ^a   Xing, Lei ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

4D PET; b spline; Deformable registration; Motion artifacts; Respiratory motion

Indexed keywords

DEFORMATION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; INTERPOLATION; PHANTOMS; POSITRONS; RESPIRATORY MECHANICS; RESTORATION;

B SPLINES; CONTRAST TO NOISE RATIO; DEFORMABLE IMAGE REGISTRATION; DEFORMABLE REGISTRATION; MOTION AND DEFORMATIONS; MOTION ARTIFACT; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY (PET); RESPIRATORY MOTIONS;

POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT REDUCTION; BREATHING; CASE REPORT; CONTRAST TO NOISE RATIO; GATED IMAGING; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; LIVER CANCER; NOISE; NOISE REDUCTION; PANCREAS CANCER; PHANTOM; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 33745649607     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.2207367     Document Type: Article

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