Extraction of the respiratory signal from small-animal CT projections for a retrospective gating method

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 53, Issue 17, 2008, Pages 4683-4695

  Chavarrias C ^a   Vaquero, J J ^a   Sisniega, A ^a   Rodriguez Ruano A ^a   Soto Montenegro, M L ^a   Garcia Barreno P ^a   Desco, M ^a  

^a HOSPITAL GENERAL UNIVERSITARIO GREGORIO MARAÑÓN   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMECHANICS; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; CORRELATION METHODS; DIAGNOSTIC RADIOGRAPHY; ELECTRIC INSTRUMENT TRANSFORMERS; IMAGE CODING; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; MEDICAL IMAGING; RESPIRATORY MECHANICS; TOMOGRAPHY;

AVERAGE IMAGE; CENTRAL MOMENTS; CONE-BEAM COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORRELATION CO-EFFICIENT; DIFFERENCE IMAGES; DYNAMIC CT; NEGATIVE VALUES; REFERENCE SIGNAL; RESPIRATORY GATING; RESPIRATORY SIGNALS; SLOPE IMPROVEMENT; SMALL ANIMALS;

SIGNAL PROCESSING;

ALGORITHM; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BREATHING; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DIAPHRAGM; FEMALE; MALE; NONHUMAN; PNEUMATIC TOOL; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LUNG; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MOVEMENT; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RESPIRATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TOMOGRAPHY SCANNERS, X-RAY COMPUTED; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 51849117798     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/53/17/015     Document Type: Article

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