Improvement of cardiac CT reconstruction using local motion vector fields

Computerized Medical Imaging and Graphics

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 122-130

  Schirra, Carsten Oliver ^a   Bontus, Claas ^b   van Stevendaal, Udo ^b   Dössel, Olaf ^a   Grass, Michael ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KARLSRUHE   (Germany)

^b PHILIPS RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (Germany)

Author keywords

Calcium scoring; Cardiac CT; Motion compensated reconstruction; Motion model

Indexed keywords

CARDIAC CT; CARDIAC IMAGING; CARDIAC PHASIS; CARDIAC RECONSTRUCTIONS; CT RECONSTRUCTIONS; FILTERED BACK PROJECTIONS; GATING WINDOWS; HELICAL CONE BEAMS; HIGH CONTRASTS; HOUNSFIELD UNITS; LOCAL MOTION VECTORS; MOTION ARTEFACTS; MOTION BLURS; MOTION COMPENSATED RECONSTRUCTION; MOTION MODEL; MOTION VECTOR FIELDS; PARAMETER SPACES; RECONSTRUCTION QUALITIES; ROBUST METHODS; SIGNAL TO NOISES; SOFTWARE PHANTOMS; STRONG MOTIONS; TEMPORAL INTERPOLATIONS;

ARSENIC; CALCIUM; CALCIUM ALLOYS; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; ELECTRIC INSTRUMENT TRANSFORMERS; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGE REGISTRATION; MOTION ESTIMATION; OBJECT RECOGNITION; RESTORATION; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; VECTORS; WINDOWS;

REPAIR;

CALCIUM;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONE BEAM COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; GATED IMAGING; HEART; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MOTION ANALYSIS SYSTEM; PHANTOM; PITCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO;

ARTIFACTS; CALCINOSIS; CARDIAC-GATED IMAGING TECHNIQUES; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY STENOSIS; HEART; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MOTION; MYOCARDIAL CONTRACTION; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 58149142813     PISSN: 08956111     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compmedimag.2008.10.012     Document Type: Article

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