Intrinsic respiratory gating in small-animal CT

European Radiology

Volumn 18, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 1375-1384

  Bartling, Soenke H ^a   Dinkel, Julien ^a   Stiller, Wolfram ^a   Grasruck, Michael ^b   Madisch, Ijad ^c   Kauczor, Hans Ulrich ^a   Semmler, Wolfhard ^a   Gupta, Rajiv ^c   Kiessling, Fabian ^a  

^a GERMAN CANCER RESEARCH CENTER DKFZ   (Germany)

^b SIEMENS AG   (Germany)

^c MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

CT; Flat panel detector; Intrinsic gating; Small animal imaging

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAPHRAGM; EXPIRATORY RESERVE VOLUME; GATED IMAGING; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; INSPIRATORY RESERVE VOLUME; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LUNG STRUCTURE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RABBIT; RAT; TIDAL VOLUME;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; ARTIFACTS; CONTRAST MEDIA; MICE; RABBITS; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RESPIRATORY MECHANICS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 45849083882     PISSN: 09387994     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00330-008-0903-3     Document Type: Article

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