Respiratory gating in positron emission tomography: A quantitative comparison of different gating schemes

Medical Physics

Volumn 34, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 3067-3076

  Dawood, Mohammad ^a   Büther, Florian ^a   Lang, Norbert ^a   Schober, Otmar ^a   Schäfers, Klaus P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Gating; Listmode; Motion correction; PET

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL SIGNAL PROCESSING; POLYETHYLENE TEREPHTHALATES; POSITRONS; RESPIRATORY MECHANICS;

BASELINE CORRECTION; GATING; LISTMODE; MOTION CORRECTION; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY (PET); QUANTITATIVE COMPARISON; RADIOTHERAPY TREATMENT; VARIABLE AMPLITUDES;

POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ANALYTICAL PARAMETERS; ARTICLE; BREATHING MECHANICS; BREATHING PATTERN; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEART MOVEMENT; HUMAN; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MOTION; NOISE; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; TIME; BREATHING; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; HEART; IMAGING PHANTOM; REPRODUCIBILITY;

HEART; HUMANS; MOTION; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RESPIRATION; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 34347392321     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.2748104     Document Type: Article

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