Joint correction of respiratory motion artifact and partial volume effect in lung/thoracic PET/CT imaging

Medical Physics

Volumn 37, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 6221-6232

  Chang, Guoping ^a   Chang, Tingting ^a   Pan, Tinsu ^b   Clark, John W ^a   Mawlawi, Osama R ^b  

^a Rice University   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

Author keywords

joint correction; partial volume effect; PET CT; quantification; respiratory motion

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; PHANTOMS; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RESPIRATORY MECHANICS;

ACTIVITY CONCENTRATION; BLURRING KERNELS; JOINT CORRECTION; MOTION ARTIFACT; MOTION BLURRING; PARTIAL-VOLUME EFFECTS; PET/CT; PHANTOM STUDIES; QUANTIFICATION; RESPIRATORY MOTIONS;

TUMORS;

EID: 78650144225     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3512780     Document Type: Article

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