Respiratory motion correction in gated cardiac SPECT using quaternion-based, rigid-body registration

Medical Physics

Volumn 36, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 4742-4754

  Parker, Jason G ^a,b   Mair, Bernard A ^c   Gilland, David R ^c  

^a Innovation Center at Kettering Health Network   (United States)

^b Wright State University   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cardiac SPECT; Motion correction; Quaternion; Respiratory motion

Indexed keywords

CONSTRAINED OPTIMIZATION; HEART; OPTICAL FLOWS; RESPIRATORY MECHANICS; RIGID STRUCTURES;

CARDIAC SPECT; MATHEMATICAL PHANTOMS; MOTION CORRECTION; PRINCIPAL AXIS METHODS; QUATERNION; RESPIRATORY MOTIONS; RIGID BODY REGISTRATIONS; USER-DEFINED PARAMETERS;

CONJUGATE GRADIENT METHOD;

ARTICLE; GATED IMAGING; HEART EJECTION FRACTION; HEART MOVEMENT; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 70349673320     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3215531     Document Type: Article

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