Respiratory motion modeling in small animal PET using GATE

IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 4948-4953

  Brancol, S ^a   Jan, S ^b   Almeidal, P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LISBON   (Portugal)

^b SERVICE HOSPITALIER FRÉDÉRIC JOLIOT   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVITY CONCENTRATION; IMAGE BLURRING; LESION DETECTION; LONG-TERM GOALS; LUNG LESIONS; MONTE CARLO SIMULATION; PET IMAGES; QUANTITATIVE ACCURACY; RESPIRATORY MOTIONS; SIMULATED DATA; SMALL ANIMAL PET; WHOLE-BODY;

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; DEGRADATION; MONTE CARLO METHODS;

RESPIRATORY MECHANICS;

EID: 67649145566     PISSN: 10957863     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/NSSMIC.2008.4774350     Document Type: Conference Paper

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