An automatic respiratory gating method for the improvement of microcirculation evaluation: Application to contrast-enhanced ultrasound studies of focal liver lesions

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 56, Issue 16, 2011, Pages 5153-5165

  Mule S ^a,b   Kachenoura, N ^a,b   Lucidarme, O ^a,b,c   De Oliveira, A ^a,b   Pellot Barakat, C ^a,b   Herment, A ^a,b   Frouin, F ^a,b  

^a UPMC Univ Paris 06   (France)

^b SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^c ASSISTANCE PUBLIQUE HÔPITAUX DE PARIS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTI-ANGIOGENIC THERAPY; AUTOMATED GENERATION; CONTRAST AGENT; CONTRAST ENHANCED ULTRASOUND; CONTRAST PULSE; CONTRAST UPTAKE; DATA SETS; FOCAL LIVER LESIONS; FREQUENCY DOMAINS; FUNCTIONAL PARAMETERS; FUNDAMENTAL MODES; IMAGING MODALITY; IN-VIVO; K-MEANS ALGORITHM; K-MEANS CLUSTERING; LINEAR COMBINATIONS; MOTION CORRECTION; NOISE AMPLITUDE; PRINCIPAL COMPONENTS ANALYSIS; PRIOR KNOWLEDGE; RESPIRATORY GATINGS; RESPIRATORY MOTIONS; RESPIRATORY RATE;

FREQUENCY DOMAIN ANALYSIS; FREQUENCY ESTIMATION; KINETICS; MICROCIRCULATION; RESPIRATORY MECHANICS; ULTRASONIC APPLICATIONS; ULTRASONICS;

PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS;

CONTRAST MEDIUM; DIAGNOSTIC AGENT;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; BLOOD; BREATHING; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; ECHOGRAPHY; HUMAN; KINETICS; LIVER CIRCULATION; LIVER DISEASE; METHODOLOGY; MICROCIRCULATION; PATHOLOGY; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; RESPIRATORY GATED IMAGING; STANDARD;

ALGORITHMS; AUTOMATION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CONTRAST MEDIA; HUMANS; KINETICS; LIVER CIRCULATION; LIVER DISEASES; MICROCIRCULATION; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; REFERENCE STANDARDS; RESPIRATION; RESPIRATORY-GATED IMAGING TECHNIQUES; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 79961043890     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/56/16/005     Document Type: Article

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