Subtraction lung image for evaluating pulmonary ventilation in xenon-enhanced CT

Medical Physics

Volumn 37, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 4464-4474

  Sase, Shigeru ^a   Nakano, Hideharu ^b   Suzuki, Hiroshi ^b   Honda, Mitsuru ^b  

^a Anzai Medical Co Ltd   (Japan)

^b TOHO UNIVERSITY OMORI MEDICAL CENTER   (Japan)

Author keywords

computed tomography; pulmonary ventilation; xenon

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; GEOMETRY; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; XENON;

ANATOMICAL STRUCTURES; IMAGE SUBTRACTION; PULMONARY VENTILATION; QUANTITATIVE INFORMATION; RADIATION EXPOSURE; SUBTRACTION METHOD; WARPING FUNCTION; WARPING TECHNIQUES;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE SUBTRACTION; LUNG; LUNG FUNCTION TEST; METHODOLOGY; RADIOGRAPHY;

HUMANS; LUNG; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RESPIRATORY FUNCTION TESTS; SUBTRACTION TECHNIQUE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 78149490615     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3464490     Document Type: Article

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