An optical flow based method for improved reconstruction of 4D CT data sets acquired during free breathing

Medical Physics

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 711-721

  Ehrhardt, Jan ^a   Werner, René ^a   Säring, Dennis ^a   Frenzel, Thorsten ^b   Lu, Wei ^c   Low, Daniel ^c   Handels, Heinz ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

^b Hermann Holthusen Institute of Radiotherapy   (Germany)

^c WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

4D CT; Image registration; Optical flow; Radiation therapy; Respiratory motion

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL SIGNAL PROCESSING; IMAGE ACQUISITION; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGE REGISTRATION; OPTICAL FLOWS; RADIOTHERAPY; RESPIRATORY MECHANICS; SORTING; VELOCITY;

COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY IMAGES; QUANTITATIVE EVALUATION; RECONSTRUCTION ARTIFACTS; RECONSTRUCTION METHOD; RESPIRATORY MOTIONS; RESPIRATORY PATTERN; RESPIRATORY PHASIS; RESPIRATORY SIGNALS;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; BREATHING; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; LUNG CANCER; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SPIROMETRY; TIDAL VOLUME;

EID: 33846632761     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.2431245     Document Type: Article

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