Motion compensated iterative reconstruction of a region of interest in cardiac cone-beam CT

Computerized Medical Imaging and Graphics

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 149-159

  Isola, A A ^a,b   Ziegler, A ^a   Schafer D ^a   Kohler T ^a   Niessen, W J ^b,c   Grass, M ^a  

^a PHILIPS RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (Germany)

^b ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Cardiac motion estimation; Computed tomography (CT); Iterative reconstruction; Motion compensation; Region of interest

Indexed keywords

4D RECONSTRUCTION; CARDIAC MOTION ESTIMATION; CARDIAC PHASIS; CLINICAL DATA; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONE-BEAM CT; CT DATA; CT RECONSTRUCTION; FIELD OF VIEWS; GATING WINDOW; ITERATIVE RECONSTRUCTION; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD APPROACHES; MOTION BLURRING; MOTION PHASIS; MOTION VECTOR FIELD; OBJECT MOTION; ORDERED SUBSETS; RECONSTRUCTED IMAGE; RECONSTRUCTION QUALITY; REGION OF INTEREST; REGION-OF-INTEREST RECONSTRUCTION; SCATTERED DATA INTERPOLATION; SPHERICALLY SYMMETRIC BASIS FUNCTIONS;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; HEART; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; MOTION COMPENSATION; REPAIR;

MOTION ESTIMATION;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT REDUCTION; CONE BEAM COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; HEART MOVEMENT; IMAGE DISPLAY; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD METHOD; MOTION COMPENSATED ITERATIVE RECONSTRUCTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ALGORITHMS; CONE-BEAM COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; HEART; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MOTION;

EID: 75149114516     PISSN: 08956111     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compmedimag.2009.08.004     Document Type: Article

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