A practical approach for quantitative estimates of voxel-by-voxel liver perfusion using DCE imaging and a compartmental model

Medical Physics

Volumn 33, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 3057-3062

  Cao, Yue ^a   Alspaugh, Jonathan ^a   Shen, Zhou ^a   Balter, James M ^a   Lawrence, Theodore S ^a   Ten Haken, Randall K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

A single compartmental model; CT perfusion; Linear least squares; Liver perfusion

Indexed keywords

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING;

COMPARTMENTAL MODEL; CT PERFUSION; DYNAMIC CONTRAST ENHANCED; LEAST SQUARES METHODS; LINEAR LEAST SQUARES; LIVER PERFUSION; NON-LINEAR LEAST SQUARES; QUANTITATIVE ESTIMATES;

LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS;

CONTRAST MEDIUM;

ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; COMPARTMENT MODEL; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEMATOCRIT; HEPATIC ARTERY; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LIVER BLOOD FLOW; LIVER CANCER; LIVER PARENCHYMA; LIVER PERFUSION; NONLINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PLASMA; PORTAL VEIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SIMULATION;

EID: 33746586521     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.2219773     Document Type: Article

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