4D-CT motion estimation using deformable image registration and 5D respiratory motion modeling

Medical Physics

Volumn 35, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 4577-4590

  Yang, Deshan ^a   Lu, Wei ^a   Low, Daniel A ^a   Deasy, Joseph O ^a   Hope, Andrew J ^a   El Naqa, Issam ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

4D CT; Deformable image registration; Optical flow; Respiratory motion modeling

Indexed keywords

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DEFORMATION; IMAGE REGISTRATION; INVERSE PROBLEMS; OPTICAL FLOWS; PATIENT MONITORING; RESPIRATORY MECHANICS; TISSUE;

COMPUTATIONAL SPEED; DEFORMABLE IMAGE REGISTRATION; FEATURE PRESERVING; FOUR-DIMENSIONAL COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY (4D-CT); IMAGE DOWN SAMPLINGS; IMAGING TECHNOLOGY; REGISTRATION ACCURACY; RESPIRATORY MOTIONS;

MOTION ESTIMATION;

AIRFLOW; ARTICLE; BREATHING; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FOUR DIMENSIONAL COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGING; MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TIDAL VOLUME; VALIDATION PROCESS;

EID: 52949101684     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.2977828     Document Type: Article

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