Phased versus midventilation attenuation-corrected respiration-correlated PET for patients with non-small cell lung cancer

Journal of Nuclear Medicine Technology

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 208-214

  Rosario, Tezontl ^a,b   Öllers, Michel C ^b   Bosmans, Geert ^b   De Ruysscher, Dirk ^b   Lambin, Philippe ^b   Dekker, Andre ^b  

^a CATHARINA HOSPITAL   (Netherlands)

^b MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

4D imaging; Attenuation correction; CT PET; Lung cancer; Respiration correlation

Indexed keywords

FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18;

ARTICLE; BREATHING; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER PATIENT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGE QUALITY; LUNG NON SMALL CELL CANCER; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RESPIRATION CORRELATED POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO;

CARCINOMA, NON-SMALL-CELL LUNG; COMPUTERS; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MOVEMENT; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PULMONARY VENTILATION; RESPIRATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SOFTWARE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 73249144380     PISSN: 00914916     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2967/jnmt.109.066845     Document Type: Article

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