Improvement in banding artefacts in four-dimensional computed tomography for radiotherapy planning

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 51, Issue 20, 2006, Pages 5231-5244

  Mori, Shinichiro ^a,d   Endo, Masahiro ^b   Asakura, Hiroshi ^c  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF RADIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF RADIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^c Inage ku   (Japan)

^d MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HUMAN MODELS; MOTION ARTIFACTS; RESPIRATORY CYCLES; RESPIRATORY GATED COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY (RGCT);

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; RESPIRATORY MECHANICS;

RADIOTHERAPY;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; APPARATUS; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; ARTIFACT REDUCTION; BANDING ARTIFACT; BREATHING PATTERN; DATA ANALYSIS SOFTWARE; EVALUATION; EXHALATION; FOUR DIMENSIONAL COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGING SYSTEM; INHALATION; MOTION; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; NONHUMAN; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOTHERAPY; RESPIRATORY GATED COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; ROTATION; SWINE; VELOCITY; X RAY TUBE;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFACTS; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MOVEMENT; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOMETRY; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RESPIRATORY MECHANICS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 33749616651     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/51/20/010     Document Type: Article

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