Automated cardiac motion compensation in PET/CT for accurate reconstruction of PET myocardial perfusion images

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 53, Issue 20, 2008, Pages 5705-5718

  Khurshid, Khawar ^a   McGough, Robert J ^a   Berger, Kevin ^b  

^a Michigan State University   (United States)

^b Michigan State University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATION; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; ERROR COMPENSATION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; MOTION COMPENSATION; MOTION ESTIMATION; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RESTORATION;

ALIGNMENT ERRORS; ATTENUATION CORRECTIONS; ATTENUATION MAPS; AUTOMATED REGISTRATIONS; CARDIAC MOTIONS; CARDIAC PERFUSIONS; CT SCANS; HEART WALLS; HYPOPERFUSION; MISREGISTRATION; MYOCARDIAL ISCHEMIAS; MYOCARDIAL PERFUSION IMAGES; PET DATUMS; PET IMAGES; PHYSICAL MOTIONS; RADIATION DOSES; RESPIRATORY MOTIONS;

ELECTRIC INSTRUMENT TRANSFORMERS;

AMMONIA N 13;

ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; BODY MOVEMENT; BREATHING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; HEART MOVEMENT; HEART MUSCLE PERFUSION; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION ATTENUATION; RADIATION DOSE; REGISTRATION;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFACTS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; HEART; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MOTION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SUBTRACTION TECHNIQUE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 58149242685     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/53/20/009     Document Type: Article

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