Quantitative study of rigid-body and respiratory motion of patients undergoing stress and rest cardiac SPECT imaging

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 57, Issue 3 PART 1, 2010, Pages 1105-1115

  Mukherjee, Joyeeta Mitra ^a   Johnson, Karen L ^a   McNamara, Joseph E ^a   King, Michael A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

Author keywords

Motion estimation; Patient motion; Signal processing; Single photon emission computed tomography; Statistical analysis

Indexed keywords

ATTENUATION MAPS; BODY MOTIONS; CARDIAC SPECT; EMISSION IMAGING; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; ILLUSTRATIVE EXAMPLES; INDUCED STRESS; MOTION TRACKING; PATIENT MOTION; PATIENT MOTIONS; PHARMACOLOGICAL STRESS; QUANTITATIVE STUDY; RESPIRATORY MOTIONS; RIGID BODY; RIGID-BODY MOTION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TRANSMISSION IMAGING; VISUAL ASSESSMENTS; VISUAL TRACKING SYSTEMS;

MOTION ESTIMATION; PARTICLE BEAMS; PHOTONS; RESPIRATORY MECHANICS; SIGNAL PROCESSING; STATISTICAL METHODS; TOMOGRAPHY;

SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 77953693472     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2010.2043852     Document Type: Article

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