Respiratory motion correction in 3-D PET data with advanced optical flow algorithms

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 27, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 1164-1175

  Dawood, Mohammad ^a   Büther, Florian ^b   Jiang, Xiaoyi ^a   Schäfers, Klaus P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Gating; Motion correction; Optical flow; Positron emission tomography (PET); Positron emission tomography computed tomography (PET CT)

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; DIAGNOSTIC RADIOGRAPHY; FOOD PRESERVATION; HOSPITAL DATA PROCESSING; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; MEDICAL IMAGING; OPTICAL FLOWS; PLASTIC BOTTLES; POSITRON ANNIHILATION SPECTROSCOPY; THREE DIMENSIONAL; TOMOGRAPHY;

GATING; MOTION ARTIFACTS; MOTION CORRECTION; OPTICAL FLOW; OPTICAL FLOW ALGORITHMS; PATIENT DATA; PET DATA; PET IMAGING; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY (PET); POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY/COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY (PET/CT); RESPIRATORY MOTIONS; SOFTWARE PHANTOM;

POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; BREATHING MECHANICS; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; METHODOLOGY; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFACTS; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MOVEMENT; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RESPIRATORY MECHANICS;

EID: 48549091398     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMI.2008.918321     Document Type: Article

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