Postacquisition detection of tumor motion in the lung and upper abdomen using list-mode PET data: A feasibility study

Journal of Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 48, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 758-763

  Bundschuh, Ralph A ^a   Martínez Moeller, Axel ^a   Essler, Markus ^a   Martínez, María José ^a   Nekolla, Stephan G ^a   Ziegler, Sibylle I ^a   Schwaiger, Markus ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

List mode; PET CT; Respiratory gating; Respiratory motion; Tumor motion

Indexed keywords

FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18; DIAGNOSTIC AGENT; RADIOPHARMACEUTICAL AGENT;

ABDOMINAL TUMOR; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ARTICLE; BREATHING MECHANICS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; IMAGING SYSTEM; LUNG TUMOR; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ALGORITHM; ARTIFACT; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; FEASIBILITY STUDY; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE SUBTRACTION; METHODOLOGY; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); RADIOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SCINTISCANNING; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ABDOMINAL NEOPLASMS; ALGORITHMS; ARTIFACTS; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F18; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MOVEMENT; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SUBTRACTION TECHNIQUE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 34250628912     PISSN: 01615505     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2967/jnumed.106.035279     Document Type: Article

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