On-board SPECT for localizing functional targets: A simulation study

Medical Physics

Volumn 36, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1727-1735

  Roper, Justin ^a   Bowsher, James ^a   Yin, Fang Fang ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

On board imaging; SPECT; Target localization

Indexed keywords

LOCATION; MAXIMUM PRINCIPLE; MOLECULAR IMAGING; MOLECULAR PHYSICS; PARTICLE BEAMS; RADIOTHERAPY; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY;

ATTENUATION CORRECTION; CONTRAST TO NOISE RATIO; LOCALIZATION ACCURACY; ON BOARD IMAGING; ORDERED SUBSETS EXPECTATION MAXIMIZATIONS; SPECT; TARGET LOCALIZATION; TUMOR TO BACKGROUND RATIOS;

TUMORS;

METHOXY ISOBUTYL ISONITRILE TECHNETIUM TC 99M;

ARTICLE; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DRUG UPTAKE; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGING SYSTEM; LUNG TUMOR; MOTION ANALYSIS SYSTEM; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIB; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; SPINE; SUPINE POSITION; THORAX WALL; TRUNK; TUMOR LOCALIZATION;

EID: 65449125366     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3113902     Document Type: Article

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