Monte carlo simulations of respiratory gated 18F-FDG PET for the assessment of volume measurement methods

IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 4050-4053

  Vauclin, Sébastien ^a,b   Hapdey, Sébastien ^a,c   Michel, Christian ^d   Rebani, Hafid ^a   Buvat, Irène ^e   Edet Sanson, Agathe ^a,c   Doyeux, Kaya ^a,b   Gardin, Isabelle ^a,c   Vera, Pierre ^a,c  

^a University of Rouen   (France)

^b SIEMENS AG   (Germany)

^c ROUEN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (France)

^d SIEMENS CORPORATE RESEARCH   (United States)

^e Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique   (France)

Author keywords

Image segmentation; Monte Carlo simulation; PET

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATIC METHOD; CLINICAL CONDITIONS; CPU TIME; DISPLACEMENT VOLUME; EXTERNAL RADIOTHERAPY; FDG PET; FIXED THRESHOLD; ITERATIVE SEGMENTATION; LIMITING FACTORS; MEASUREMENT METHODS; MONTE CARLO; MONTE CARLO SIMULATION; NUMERICAL PHANTOMS; PET; PET DATA; RECONSTRUCTED IMAGE; RESPIRATORY GATING; RESPIRATORY MOTIONS; SIGNIFICANT IMPACTS; SIMULATED DATA; THORACIC IMAGING;

DIGITAL IMAGE STORAGE; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; ITERATIVE METHODS; MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS; PATIENT TREATMENT; RESPIRATORY MECHANICS; TITRATION; VOLUME MEASUREMENT;

MONTE CARLO METHODS;

EID: 67649192023     PISSN: 10957863     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/NSSMIC.2008.4774174     Document Type: Conference Paper

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