Prospective displacement and velocity-based cine 4D CT

Medical Physics

Volumn 35, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 4501-4512

  Langner, U W ^a   Keall, P J ^a  

^a STANFORD CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

4D CT; Artifacts; Displacement sorting; Phase sorting

Indexed keywords

FITS AND TOLERANCES; IMAGE ACQUISITION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; SORTING; SYSTEMATIC ERRORS; VELOCITY;

ARTIFACTS; IRREGULAR BOUNDARY; MODEL PARAMETERS; PHASE ESTIMATION; REAL-TIME IMAGE ACQUISITIONS; RESPIRATORY SIGNALS; ROOT MEAN SQUARE; TWO DIMENSIONAL IMAGES;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

ARTICLE; ARTIFACT REDUCTION; BREATHING; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DOSE CALCULATION; FOUR DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

EID: 52949140550     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.2977539     Document Type: Article

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