The impact of temporal inaccuracies on 4DCT image quality

Medical Physics

Volumn 34, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 1615-1622

  Mutaf, Y D ^a   Antolak, J A ^a   Brinkmann, D H ^a  

^a MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

4DCT; Image quality; Motion artifacts; Phase calculation; Phase sorting; Respiratory gating

Indexed keywords

IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; PATIENT MONITORING; PHANTOMS; QUALITY ASSURANCE;

4DCT; CLINICAL ENVIRONMENTS; IMAGE GUIDED RADIOTHERAPY; MOTION ARTIFACT; PHASE CALCULATION; QUANTITATIVE ASSESSMENTS; RESPIRATORY GATINGS; TARGET IDENTIFICATION;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; VOLUMETRY;

EID: 34247630225     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.2717404     Document Type: Article

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