The application of a statistical shape model to diaphragm tracking in respiratory-gated cardiac PET images

Proceedings of the IEEE

Volumn 97, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 2039-2052

  McQuaid, Sarah J ^a,b   Lambrou, Tryphon ^a   Cunningham, Vincent J ^c   Bettinardi, Valentino ^d   Gilardi, Maria Carla ^d,e   Hutton, Brian F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c HAMMERSMITH HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^d SAN RAFFAELE HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Attenuation correction; Cardiac imaging; Positron emission tomography (PET); Respiratory motion; Statistical shape models

Indexed keywords

DIAPHRAGMS; ERRORS; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; POSITRONS;

ATTENUATION CORRECTION; CARDIAC IMAGING; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY (PET); RESPIRATORY MOTIONS; STATISTICAL SHAPE MODEL;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 70450233573     PISSN: 00189219     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JPROC.2009.2031844     Document Type: Article

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