A comparison of amplitude-based and phase-based positron emission tomography gating algorithms for segmentation of internal target volumes of tumors subject to respiratory motion

International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics

Volumn 87, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 562-569

  Jani, Shyam S ^a   Robinson, Clifford G ^b   Dahlbom, Magnus ^a   White, Benjamin M ^a   Thomas, David H ^a   Gaudio, Sergio ^a   Low, Daniel A ^a   Lamb, James M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b USA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BREATHING CONDITION; INTERNAL TARGET VOLUME; METHODS AND MATERIALS; PATIENT BREATHING; PHANTOM EXPERIMENT; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY (PET); RESPIRATORY GATINGS; RESPIRATORY MOTIONS;

ALGORITHMS; BINS; BODY FLUIDS; RESPIRATORY MECHANICS; SPHERES; TUMORS;

POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE;

ARTICLE; BREATHING PATTERN; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EXHALATION; HUMAN; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGING PHANTOM; INHALATION; LUNG TUMOR; LYMPHOMA; MEASUREMENT ACCURACY; PET SCANNER; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY GATED IMAGING; TUMOR VOLUME; VISUAL THRESHOLD;

ALGORITHMS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F18; LUNG NEOPLASMS; LYMPH NODES; MEDIASTINUM; MOVEMENT; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY AND COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; RESPIRATION; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TUMOR BURDEN;

EID: 84884838016     PISSN: 03603016     EISSN: 1879355X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2013.06.2042     Document Type: Article

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