Respiratory phase-correlated micro-CT imaging of free-breathing rodents

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 54, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 3837-3846

  Ertel, Dirk ^a   Kyriakou, Yiannis ^a   Lapp, Robert M ^b   Kalender, Willi A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^b VAMP GmbH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATIC DETECTION; CORRELATED IMAGING; DATA SETS; DUAL SOURCE; MICRO CT; MOTION BLURRING; MOTION FUNCTION; MULTI-SEGMENT; OPTIMAL DATA; PROJECTION DATA; RESPIRATORY GATINGS; STANDARD IMAGES; SUBJECT-SPECIFIC; SYNCHRONIZATION SIGNALS; VISUAL ASSESSMENTS;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; IMAGE QUALITY; MAMMALS; OPTIMIZATION; REPAIR; RESPIRATORY MECHANICS; WINDOWS;

IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION;

ARTICLE; BREATHING RATE; CONTROLLED STUDY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; LUNG STRUCTURE; MICRO-COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; ALGORITHM; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTIFACT; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; BREATHING MECHANICS; C57BL MOUSE; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ELECTRONICS; GATED IMAGING; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MOUSE; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; ARTIFACTS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MINIATURIZATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RESPIRATORY MECHANICS; RESPIRATORY-GATED IMAGING TECHNIQUES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 70149116159     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/54/12/015     Document Type: Article

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