4D CT lung ventilation images are affected by the 4D CT sorting method

Medical Physics

Volumn 40, Issue 10, 2013, Pages

  Yamamoto, Tokihiro ^a,b   Kabus, Sven ^c   Lorenz, Cristian ^c   Johnston, Eric ^a   Maxim, Peter G ^a   Diehn, Maximilian ^a   Eclov, Neville ^a   Barquero, Cristian ^a   Loo, Billy W ^a   Keall, Paul J ^d  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c PHILIPS RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Artifact; Four dimensional (4D) CT; Functional imaging; Lung; Ventilation

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; PARTICLE BEAMS; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY;

ARTIFACT; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY DATA; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY IMAGES; DATA SEGMENT; FOUR-DIMENSIONAL (4D) COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; FUNCTIONAL IMAGING; LUNG; PHASE BASED; SIMILARITY COEFFICIENTS; SORTING METHOD;

SORTING;

ADULT; AGED; ANATOMICAL VARIATION; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; CANCER PATIENT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; COMPUTER ASSISTED EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; DICE SIMILARITY COEFFICIENT; FEMALE; FOUR DIMENSIONAL COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; LUNG; LUNG CANCER; LUNG SCINTISCANNING; LUNG VENTILATION; LUNG VOLUME; MALE; PET SCANNER; PREDICTIVE VALUE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; STATISTICAL PARAMETERS; VOXEL BASED MORPHOMETRY; IMAGE PROCESSING; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; RADIOGRAPHY; VERY ELDERLY; METHODOLOGY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ARTIFACTS; FEMALE; FOUR-DIMENSIONAL COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LUNG; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PULMONARY VENTILATION;

EID: 84885773208     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.4820538     Document Type: Article

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