Development of a dynamic flow imaging phantom for dynamic contrast-enhanced CT

Medical Physics

Volumn 38, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 4866-4880

  Driscoll, B ^a   Keller, H ^a   Coolens, C ^a  

^a PRINCESS MARGARET HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

DCE CT; perfusion CT; phantom; quality assurance

Indexed keywords

3D PRINTERS; FLOW MEASUREMENT; FORECASTING; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; KINETIC THEORY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHANTOMS; PREDICTIVE ANALYTICS; QUALITY ASSURANCE; SCANNING;

ARTERIAL INPUT FUNCTION; DYNAMIC CONTRAST ENHANCED; MEASUREMENT SENSITIVITY; MODELING OF BLOOD FLOW; PERFUSION-CT; QUANTIFICATION AND VALIDATIONS; QUANTITATIVE PARAMETERS; TWO-COMPARTMENT MODELS;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 79961082886     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3615058     Document Type: Article

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35. See supplementary material at http://dx.doi.org/10.1118/1.3615058 E-MPHYA6-38-037108 for an expansion of the development and use of the phantom prediction model. It also tables additional numerical results and includes definitions of the all model parameters.