Automatic 3D registration of dynamic stress and rest 82Rb and flurpiridaz F 18 myocardial perfusion PET data for patient motion detection and correction

Medical Physics

Volumn 38, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 6313-6326

  Woo, Jonghye ^a   Tamarappoo, Balaji ^a   Dey, Damini ^a   Nakazato, Ryo ^a   Le Meunier, Ludovic ^b   Ramesh, Amit ^a   Lazewatsky, Joel ^c   Germano, Guido ^a,d   Berman, Daniel S ^a,d   Slomka, Piotr J ^a,d  

^a CEDARS SINAI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b Siemens Healthcare Molecular Imaging   (United States)

^c A Subsidiary of Lantheus Holdings   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

cardiac PET myocardial perfusion imaging; flurpiridaz F 18; image registration; motion correction and detection

Indexed keywords

COST FUNCTIONS; IMAGE REGISTRATION; MAXIMUM PRINCIPLE; MOTION ANALYSIS; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

CONTRAST TO NOISE RATIO; FLURPIRIDAZ F 18; LEFT VENTRICULAR MOTION; MOTION CORRECTION; MYOCARDIAL PERFUSION IMAGING; NORMALIZED CROSS CORRELATION; ORDERED SUBSETS EXPECTATION MAXIMIZATIONS; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY (PET);

IMAGE ENHANCEMENT;

EID: 80855128853     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3656951     Document Type: Article

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