Impact of respiratory motion on the detection of small pulmonary nodules in SPECT imaging

IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record

Volumn 5, Issue , 2007, Pages 3241-3245

  Smyczynski, M S ^a   Gifford, H C ^a   Lehovich, A ^a   McNamara, J E ^a   Segars, W P ^b   Tsui, B M W ^c   King, M A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMECHANICS; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; RESPIRATORY MECHANICS; RESTORATION; TECHNETIUM; THREE DIMENSIONAL; TUMORS;

ANATOMIC STRUCTURES; ATTENUATION CORRECTIONS; ATTENUATION DISTRIBUTIONS; ATTENUATION MAPS; CT IMAGES; DETECTOR RESPONSES; GAUSSIAN FILTERING; LESION DETECTIONS; MONTE CARLO PROGRAMS; NCAT PHANTOMS; NOISE LEVELS; NUMBER OF ITERATIONS; OBSERVER STUDIES; PULMONARY NODULES; RECONSTRUCTION PARAMETERS; RESPIRATORY MOTIONS; SCATTER CORRECTIONS; SINGLE PHOTONS; SPECT IMAGING; SPECT PROJECTIONS; TOMOGRAPHIC; TUMOR DETECTIONS;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

EID: 48349086159     PISSN: 10957863     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/NSSMIC.2007.4436830     Document Type: Conference Paper

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