Impact of respiratory motion correction and spatial resolution on lesion detection in PET: A simulation study based on real MR dynamic data

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 59, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 697-713

  Polycarpou, Irene ^a   Tsoumpas, Charalampos ^a   King, Andrew P ^a   Marsden, Paul K ^a  

^a ST THOMAS HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

breathing pattern; lesion detection; motion correction; motion model; numeric observer; PET MR; receiver operating characteristic analysis

Indexed keywords

BREATHING PATTERNS; LESION DETECTION; MOTION CORRECTION; MOTION MODELING; NUMERIC OBSERVER; PET-MR; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC ANALYSIS;

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGE RESOLUTION; SCANNING;

RESPIRATORY MECHANICS;

ALGORITHM; BREATHING; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PROCEDURES; SCINTISCANNING; THORAX;

ALGORITHMS; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MOVEMENT; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RESPIRATION; THORAX;

EID: 84892763724     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/59/3/697     Document Type: Article

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