The impact of audio-visual biofeedback on 4D PET images: Results of a phantom study

Medical Physics

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 1046-1057

  Yang, Jaewon ^a   Yamamoto, Tokihiro ^b   Cho, Byungchul ^c   Seo, Youngho ^d   Keall, Paul J ^e  

^a Stanford University   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c University of Ulsan College of Medicine   (South Korea)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

4D PET; audiovisual biofeedback; lung cancer; motion blurring artifacts; phantom

Indexed keywords

AUDIOVISUAL; BIOFEEDBACK; BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; IMAGE QUALITY; PHANTOMS; TUMORS;

LUNG CANCER; MOTION BLURRING; PARTIAL VOLUME EFFECT; RECOVERY COEFFICIENTS; RESPIRATORY MOTIONS; STATIONARY TARGETS; TARGET DIAMETERS; TUMOR DETECTABILITY;

IMAGE ENHANCEMENT;

EID: 84863020711     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3679012     Document Type: Article

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