4D micro-CT using fast prospective gating

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 57, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 257-271

  Guo, Xiaolian ^a,b   Johnston, Samuel M ^b   Qi, Yi ^b   Johnson, G Allan ^b   Badea, Cristian T ^b  

^a Tsinghua University   (China)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACQUISITION TIME; ANATOMIC INFORMATION; ANATOMICAL INFORMATION; ANIMAL STUDIES; BLOOD POOL; BODY WEIGHT; CARDIAC IMAGING; CONTRAST AGENT; DRUG SAFETY; DUAL SOURCE; ECG SIGNALS; FUNCTIONAL INFORMATION; HIGH-THROUGHPUT; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; LOW DOSE; MICRO CT; MICRO-CT SYSTEMS; MOTION BLUR; ON-THE-FLY COMPUTATIONS; PHANTOM EXPERIMENT; PHENOTYPING; PRECLINICAL STUDIES; PROJECTION IMAGE; PULMONARY IMAGING; PULSED X-RAYS; RADIATION DOSE; RESPIRATORY GATINGS; RESPIRATORY PHASIS; RESPIRATORY SIGNALS; SAMPLING PROTOCOL; SAMPLING STRATEGIES; TAIL VEINS; TEMPORAL RESOLUTION; VOXEL SIZE;

ANGULAR DISTRIBUTION; EXPERIMENTS; HEART; IMAGE QUALITY; MAMMALS; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RESPIRATORY MECHANICS;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CARDIAC GATED IMAGING; FOUR DIMENSIONAL COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; HEART; IMAGE QUALITY; METHODOLOGY; MOUSE; RADIOGRAPHY; RAT; RESPIRATORY GATED IMAGING; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; TIME;

ANIMALS; CARDIAC-GATED IMAGING TECHNIQUES; FOUR-DIMENSIONAL COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; HEART; MICE; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RESPIRATORY-GATED IMAGING TECHNIQUES; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 83455225138     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/57/1/257     Document Type: Article

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