Reproducibility of Four-dimensional Computed Tomography-based Lung Ventilation Imaging

Academic Radiology

Volumn 19, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 1554-1565

  Yamamoto, Tokihiro ^a   Kabus, Sven ^b   von Berg, Jens ^b   Lorenz, Cristian ^b   Chung, Melody P ^a   Hong, Julian C ^a   Loo, Billy W ^a   Keall, Paul J ^c  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b PHILIPS RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Deformable image registration; Four dimensional (4D) CT; Functional imaging; Lung; Reproducibility; Ventilation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER STAGING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FEMALE; FOUR DIMENSIONAL COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; LUNG NON SMALL CELL CANCER; LUNG VENTILATION; MALE; METASTASIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCIBILITY; TIDAL VOLUME; VOXEL BASED MORPHOMETRY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARCINOMA, NON-SMALL-CELL LUNG; FEMALE; FOUR-DIMENSIONAL COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; LUNG VOLUME MEASUREMENTS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PULMONARY VENTILATION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TIDAL VOLUME;

EID: 84868303984     PISSN: 10766332     EISSN: 18784046     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.acra.2012.07.006     Document Type: Article

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