A registration based approach for 4D cardiac micro-CT using combined prospective and retrospective gating

Medical Physics

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 1170-1179

  Badea, Cristian T ^a   Schreibmann, Eduard ^b   Fox, Tim ^b  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

4D CT; Cardiac; Image reconstruction; Low dose; Micro CT; Small animal; X ray

Indexed keywords

ANGULAR DISTRIBUTION; DEFORMATION; HEART; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGE SAMPLING; X RAYS;

CARDIAC; DEFORMABLE REGISTRATION; HIGHEST RESOLUTIONS; LOW DOSE; MICRO CT; MICROCOMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; RECONSTRUCTION PROCESS; SMALL ANIMAL;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MICRO-COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; REGISTRATION; SAMPLING;

ANIMALIA; MURINAE;

EID: 41449104123     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.2868778     Document Type: Article

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