Computer-assisted quantification of lung tumors in respiratory gated PET/CT images: Phantom study

Medical and Biological Engineering and Computing

Volumn 48, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 49-58

  Wang, Jiali ^a   Del Valle, Misael ^a   Goryawala, Mohammed ^a   Franquiz, Juan M ^b   McGoron, Anthony J ^a  

^a Florida International University   (United States)

^b Radiological Physics of South Florida Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Lung cancer; Medical imaging; Nuclear medicine; Registration; Respiratory gating

Indexed keywords

BREATHING CYCLE; CHEST PHANTOM; CLINICAL ANALYSIS; COMPUTATION TIME; COMPUTER ASSISTED; CROSS-CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DIFFERENT SIZES; GOLD STANDARDS; IMAGE NOISE; INTENSITY-BASED; LUNG CANCER; LUNG TUMOR; MOTION CORRECTION; NOISE LEVELS; PET IMAGES; PET SCAN; PHANTOM STUDIES; QUANTITATIVE RESULT; REGISTRATION SCHEME; RESPIRATORY CYCLE; RESPIRATORY GATINGS; RESPIRATORY MOTIONS; RIGID BODY; TUMOR ACTIVITY;

BINS; BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; NUCLEAR ENERGY; NUCLEAR MEDICINE; ONCOLOGY; OPTICAL FLOWS; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RESPIRATORY MECHANICS; TUMORS;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BREATHING MECHANICS; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; LUNG TUMOR; METHODOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RADIOGRAPHY; SCINTISCANNING; VALIDATION STUDY;

ALGORITHMS; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LUNG NEOPLASMS; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RESPIRATORY MECHANICS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 77649233704     PISSN: 01400118     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11517-009-0549-6     Document Type: Article

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