Cardiac phase-correlated image reconstruction and advanced image processing in pulmonary CT imaging

European Radiology

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 1035-1042

  Lapp, Robert M ^a   Kachelrieß, Marc ^b   Ertel, Dirk ^b   Kyriakou, Yiannis ^b   Kalender, Willi A ^b  

^a VAMP GmbH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

CT; Kymogram; Motion free merging; Pulmonary imaging

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; LUNG DISEASE; MOTION; NOISE; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL PROCESSING; ALGORITHM; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART; HUMAN; LUNG; PROCEDURES; RADIOGRAPHY; STATISTICAL MODEL; TIME;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFACTS; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LUNG; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MOTION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 62649107131     PISSN: 09387994     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00330-008-1237-x     Document Type: Article

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