Four-dimensional multislice helical CT of the lung: Qualitative comparison of retrospectively gated and static images in an ex-vivo system

Radiotherapy and Oncology

Volumn 85, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 215-222

  Dinkel, Julien ^a,c   Welzel, Thomas ^a   Bolte, Hendrik ^b   Hoffmann, Beata ^b   Thierfelder, Carsten ^d   Mende, Ulrich ^a   Debus, Jürgen ^a   Heller, Martin ^b   Kauczor, Hans Ulrich ^c   Biederer, Juergen ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL SCHLESWIG HOLSTEIN   (Germany)

^c GERMAN CANCER RESEARCH CENTER DKFZ   (Germany)

^d SIEMENS AG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Computed tomography; Ex vivo study; Lung; Respiration; Retrospective gating

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; ARTIFACT REDUCTION; BREATHING MECHANICS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DIAPHRAGM MOVEMENT; EX VIVO STUDY; EXPLANT; FOUR DIMENSIONAL MULTISLICE HELICAL COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LUNG EXPLANT; NOISE; NONHUMAN; PARTIAL PROJECTION ARTIFACT; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; ROTATION; SCORING SYSTEM; SIMULATION; SPIRAL COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; STEPLADDER ARTIFACT; SWINE;

LUNG; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RESPIRATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TOMOGRAPHY, SPIRAL COMPUTED;

EID: 36349025791     PISSN: 01678140     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.radonc.2007.09.003     Document Type: Article

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