Evaluation of respiratory and cardiac motion correction schemes in dual gated PET/CT cardiac imaging

Medical Physics

Volumn 41, Issue 7, 2014, Pages

  Lamare, F ^a,b,c   Le Maitre, A ^d   Dawood, M ^e   Schafers K P ^e   Fernandez, P ^a,b,c   Rimoldi, O E ^f,g   Visvikis, D ^d  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE BORDEAUX   (France)

^b UMR 5287   (France)

^c HÔPITAL PELLEGRIN   (France)

^d UNIVERSITÉ DE BRETAGNE OCCIDENTALE   (France)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^f SAN RAFFAELE HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^g INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR BIOIMAGING AND PHYSIOLOGY   (Italy)

Author keywords

affine and elastic registration; dual gating; image reconstruction; motion correction; PET CT

Indexed keywords

HEART; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; METADATA; MOTION COMPENSATION; PETROLEUM RESERVOIR EVALUATION; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RESPIRATORY MECHANICS;

COEFFICIENT OF VARIATION; DUAL GATING; ELASTIC REGISTRATION; ELASTIC REGISTRATION ALGORITHM; MOTION CORRECTION; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY (PET); STATISTICALLY SIGNIFICANT DIFFERENCE; TRANSFORMATION PARAMETERS;

SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18;

AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ARTICLE; ATTENUATION; BREATHING MECHANICS; BREATHING PATTERN; CARDIAC GATED IMAGING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; DIASTOLE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPH; HEART CYCLE; HEART MOVEMENT; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGING PHANTOM; PET-CT SCANNER; RESPIRATORY GATED IMAGING; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; ALGORITHM; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BREATHING; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DEVICES; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEASIBILITY STUDY; HEART; HEART CONTRACTION; IMAGE QUALITY; MOTION; ORGAN SIZE; PHYSIOLOGY; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PROCEDURES;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; HEART; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOTION; MYOCARDIAL CONTRACTION; ORGAN SIZE; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RESPIRATION; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84902455665     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.4881099     Document Type: Article

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