Toward time resolved cardiac CT images with patient dose reduction: Image-based motion estimation

IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record

Volumn 4, Issue , 2006, Pages 2029-2032

  Taguchi, Katsuyuki ^a,b   Segars, William P ^a,b,c   Kudo, Hiroyuki ^a,d   Frey, Eric C ^a,b   Fishman, Elliot K ^b   Tsui, Benjamin M W ^a,b  

^a IEEE

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cardiac; Computed tomography; Motion estimation; Temporal resolution

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; DOSIMETERS; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MOTION ESTIMATION; RADIOTHERAPY;

MOTION VECTOR FIELD; PATIENT DOSE REDUCTION; TEMPORAL RESOLUTION;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 38649140726     PISSN: 10957863     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/NSSMIC.2006.354312     Document Type: Conference Paper

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