The effect of breathing irregularities on quantitative accuracy of respiratory gated PETCT

Medical Physics

Volumn 39, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 7390-7397

  Teo, Boon Keng ^a   Saboury, Babak ^b   Munbodh, Reshma ^a   Scheuermann, Joshua ^b   Torigian, Drew A ^a   Zaidi, Habib ^b,c,d   Alavi, Abass ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b GENEVA UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^d UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

4D PET; gating; PETCT imaging; quantification; respiratory motion

Indexed keywords

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; ERRORS; PHANTOMS; RESPIRATORY MECHANICS;

BREATHING PATTERNS; GATING; PATIENT BREATHING; PHANTOM MEASUREMENTS; QUANTIFICATION; QUANTITATIVE ACCURACY; RESPIRATORY MOTIONS; STANDARDIZED UPTAKE VALUES;

POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 84870942670     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.4766876     Document Type: Article

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