Effectiveness of three alternative strategies in reducing the degrading impact ofrespiratory motion on the detection of small pulmonary nodules in SPECT imaging

IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 3663-3667

  Smyczynski, M S ^a   Gifford, H C ^a   Lehovich, A ^a   Mcnamara, J E ^a   Segars, W P ^b   Dey, J ^a   King, M A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

4-FRAMES; ATTENUATION MAPS; COUNTS-AS; LESION DETECTION; MONTE CARLO PROGRAMS; NOISE LEVELS; PROJECTION DATA; PULMONARY NODULES; RESPIRATORY CYCLE; RESPIRATORY MOTIONS; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION; SPECT IMAGING; SPECT PROJECTIONS; TIME-AVERAGED; TOMOGRAPHIC IMAGING; TORSO PHANTOM; TOTAL COUNTS;

NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; RESPIRATORY MECHANICS; RESTORATION; TECHNETIUM;

BINS;

EID: 67649148611     PISSN: 10957863     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/NSSMIC.2008.4774111     Document Type: Conference Paper

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