A mass conservation-based optical flow method for cardiac motion correction in 3D-PET

Medical Physics

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Dawood, Mohammad ^a   Gigengack, Fabian ^a   Jiang, Xiaoyi ^a   Schäfers, Klaus P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

mass conservation; motion correction; optical flow; PET; registration

Indexed keywords

BLOOD; HEART; HOSPITAL DATA PROCESSING; LUMINANCE; MUSCLE; PHANTOMS; POLYETHYLENE TEREPHTHALATES; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

CONSERVATION OF MASS; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; MASS CONSERVATION; MOTION CORRECTION; OPTICAL FLOW METHODS; PARTIAL VOLUME EFFECT; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY (PET); REGISTRATION;

OPTICAL FLOWS;

ARTICLE; BLOOD; BRIGHTNESS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; HEART INJURY; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE; HEART MUSCLE; HUMAN; MASS; MOTION; OPTIC FLOW; PHANTOM; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; ARTIFACT; HEART; IMAGE QUALITY; LIGHT RELATED PHENOMENA; METHODOLOGY; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SCINTISCANNING; TIME;

ARTIFACTS; HEART; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MOVEMENT; MYOCARDIUM; OPTICAL PROCESSES; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84872008773     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.4770276     Document Type: Article

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