A novel method for incorporating respiratory-matched attenuation correction in the motion correction of cardiac PET-CT studies

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 56, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 2903-2915

  McQuaid, Sarah J ^a   Lambrou, Tryphon ^b   Hutton, Brian F ^b  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATTENUATION CORRECTION; CARDIAC ACTIVITY; DATA SETS; GOLD STANDARDS; HEART MOTION; MOTION CORRECTION; NOVEL METHODS; PERFUSION DEFECTS; PET IMAGES; QUANTITATIVE ACCURACY; RESPIRATORY EFFECTS; RIGID REGISTRATION; SEMI-AUTOMATICS; STATISTICAL SHAPE MODEL;

DIAPHRAGMS; HEART;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; BREATHING; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; HEART; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; METHODOLOGY; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RADIOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SCINTISCANNING;

ARTIFACTS; HEART; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MOVEMENT; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RESPIRATION; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 79955456001     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/56/10/002     Document Type: Article

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