A new respiratory gating device to improve 4D PET/CT

Medical Physics

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 2013, Pages

  Didierlaurent, David ^a   Ribes, Sophie ^a   Caselles, Olivier ^a   Jaudet, Cyril ^b   Cazalet, Jean Marc ^c   Batatia, Hadj ^d   Courbon, Frédéric ^e  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE TOULOUSE   (France)

^b INSTITUT CLAUDIUS REGAUD   (France)

^c ISP System   (France)

^d IRIT   (France)

^e TOULOUSE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (France)

Author keywords

4D PET CT; gating device; pneumotachograph

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; DIAGNOSIS; PHANTOMS; RESPIRATORY MECHANICS; TUMORS;

4D PET/CT; BREATHING PATTERNS; EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; GATING DEVICE; HEIGHT MEASUREMENT; PNEUMOTACHOGRAPH; RESPIRATORY GATINGS; RESPIRATORY MOTIONS;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

ARTICLE; BREATHING; BREATHING PATTERN; COMPUTER ASSISTED EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; FOUR DIMENSIONAL COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; HEIGHT; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGING PHANTOM; IMAGING SYSTEM; INHALATION; LUNG TUMOR; LUNG VOLUME; PNEUMOTACHOGRAPH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY AIRFLOW; RESPIRATORY GATED IMAGING; RESPIRATORY GATING DEVICE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TIDAL VOLUME; TUMOR VOLUME; ARTIFACT; EQUIPMENT; IMAGE QUALITY; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); PATIENT POSITIONING;

ARTIFACTS; FOUR-DIMENSIONAL COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; HUMANS; MOVEMENT; PATIENT POSITIONING; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY AND COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; RESPIRATORY-GATED IMAGING TECHNIQUES;

EID: 84874761316     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.4789487     Document Type: Article

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