Predictive modeling of lung motion over the entire respiratory cycle using measured pressure-volume data, 4DCT images, and finite-element analysis

Medical Physics

Volumn 37, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 4389-4400

  Eom, Jaesung ^a   Xu, Xie George ^a   De, Suvranu ^a   Shi, Chengyu ^b  

^a RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio   (United States)

Author keywords

4DCT; FEM; lung model; NURBS surface reconstruction; respiratory motion

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; FORECASTING; MESH GENERATION; PATIENT MONITORING; PHYSIOLOGICAL MODELS; PREDICTIVE ANALYTICS; RADIOTHERAPY; RESPIRATORY MECHANICS; TISSUE;

4DCT; BIOMECHANICAL PARAMETERS; DISPLACEMENT BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; FOUR-DIMENSIONAL COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; LUNG MODEL; NON-LINEAR FINITE ELEMENT MODEL; PRESSURE-VOLUME CURVES; RESPIRATORY MOTIONS;

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BREATHING MECHANICS; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; LUNG; LUNG FUNCTION TEST; METHODOLOGY; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); PHYSIOLOGY; PRESSURE; RADIOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TIDAL VOLUME;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; LUNG; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOVEMENT; PRESSURE; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RESPIRATORY FUNCTION TESTS; RESPIRATORY MECHANICS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TIDAL VOLUME;

EID: 78149478818     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3455276     Document Type: Article

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