A flexible multicamera visual-tracking system for detecting and correcting motion-induced artifacts in cardiac SPECT slices

Medical Physics

Volumn 36, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1913-1923

  McNamara, Joseph E ^a   Pretorius, P Hendrik ^a   Johnson, Karen ^a   Mukherjee, Joyeeta Mitra ^a   Dey, Joyoni ^a   Gennert, Michael A ^b   King, Michael A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b WORCESTER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cardiac SPECT; Motion tracking; Patient motion correction

Indexed keywords

CAMERAS; HEART; INFRARED DEVICES; ITERATIVE METHODS; MEDICAL IMAGING; MOTION CONTROL; PHANTOMS; STEREO IMAGE PROCESSING; TRACKING (POSITION);

ANTHROPOMORPHIC PHANTOMS; CARDIAC SPECT; ITERATIVE RECONSTRUCTION; PATIENT MOTIONS; RETRO-REFLECTIVE MARKER; TEMPORAL SYNCHRONIZATION; TRANSMISSION IMAGING; VISUAL TRACKING SYSTEMS;

MOTION TRACKING;

TECHNETIUM 99M;

ABDOMEN; ACCURACY; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; CAMERA; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; FEMALE; HEART MOVEMENT; HUMAN; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOCARDIOGRAPHY; SIGNAL DETECTION; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; THORAX; VOLUNTEER;

EID: 65449155106     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3117592     Document Type: Article

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