The CT motion quantitation of lung lesions and its impact on PET-measured SUVs

Journal of Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 45, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 1287-1292

  Erdi, Yusuf E ^a   Nehmeh, Sadek A ^a   Pan, Tinsu ^b   Pevsner, Alexander ^a   Rosenzweig, Kenneth E ^a   Mageras, Gikas ^a   Yorke, Ellen D ^a   Schoder, Heiko ^a   Hsiao, Wendy ^a   Squire, Olivia D ^a   Vernon, Phil ^b   Ashman, Jonathan B ^a   Mostafavi, Hassan ^c   Larson, Steven M ^a   Humm, John L ^a  

^a MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^b GE HEALTHCARE   (United States)

^c VARIAN MEDICAL SYSTEMS   (United States)

Author keywords

Motion; PET CT; SUV

Indexed keywords

FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BREATHING PATTERN; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LUNG CANCER; LUNG INJURY; MALE; MOTION ANALYSIS SYSTEM; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; BREATHING MECHANICS; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; IMAGE SUBTRACTION; LUNG NON SMALL CELL CANCER; LUNG TUMOR; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); RADIOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SCINTISCANNING; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; VALIDATION STUDY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARCINOMA, NON-SMALL-CELL LUNG; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOVEMENT; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RESPIRATORY MECHANICS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SUBTRACTION TECHNIQUE; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 4544221611     PISSN: 01615505     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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