4D-Imaging of the Lung: Reproducibility of Lesion Size and Displacement on Helical CT, MRI, and Cone Beam CT in a Ventilated Ex Vivo System

International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics

Volumn 73, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 919-926

  Biederer, Juergen ^a   Dinkel, Julien ^b,c   Remmert, Gregor ^b   Jetter, Siri ^b   Nill, Simeon ^b   Moser, Torsten ^b   Bendl, Rolf ^b,d   Thierfelder, Carsten ^e   Fabel, Michael ^a   Oelfke, Uwe ^b   Bock, Michael ^b   Plathow, Christian ^b,f   Bolte, Hendrik ^a   Welzel, Thomas ^c   Hoffmann, Beata ^a   Hartmann, Günter ^b   Schlegel, Wolfgang ^b   Debus, Jürgen ^c   Heller, Martin ^a   Kauczor, Hans Ulrich ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL SCHLESWIG HOLSTEIN   (Germany)

^b GERMAN CANCER RESEARCH CENTER DKFZ   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^d HEILBRONN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^e SIEMENS AG   (Germany)

^f UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Computed tomography; Cone beam CT; Dynamic MRI; Lung nodules; Respiratory gating

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; BIOMECHANICS; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC RADIOGRAPHY; LINEAR ACCELERATORS; MEDICAL IMAGING; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RESPIRATORY MECHANICS; THREE DIMENSIONAL; TOMOGRAPHY; VENTILATION;

COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONE BEAM CT; DYNAMIC MRI; LUNG NODULES; RESPIRATORY GATING;

ELECTRIC INSTRUMENT TRANSFORMERS;

AGAROSE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONE BEAM COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EX VIVO STUDY; FOUR DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; LUNG NODULE; LUNG TUMOR; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCIBILITY; SPIRAL COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; SWINE; TUMOR VOLUME;

ANIMALS; CONE-BEAM COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; LUNG; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MOVEMENT; MULTIPLE PULMONARY NODULES; OBSERVER VARIATION; PARTICLE ACCELERATORS; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RESPIRATION; SWINE; TOMOGRAPHY, SPIRAL COMPUTED;

EID: 59649083454     PISSN: 03603016     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2008.09.014     Document Type: Article

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