An integrated bioimpedance - ECG gating technique for respiratory and cardiac motion compensation in cardiac PET

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 59, Issue 21, 2014, Pages 6373-6385

  Koivumäki, Tuomas ^a,b   Nekolla, Stephan G ^c   Fürst, Sebastian ^c   Loher, Simone ^c   Vauhkonen, Marko ^b   Schwaiger, Markus ^c   Hakulinen, Mikko A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN FINLAND   (Finland)

^b KUOPIO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Finland)

^c TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bioimpedance; Dual gating; Positron emission tomography; Respiratory motion compensation

Indexed keywords

BIO-IMPEDANCE; DUAL GATING; ECG GATING;

POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

AGED; CARDIAC GATED IMAGING; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMPEDANCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PROCEDURES; RESPIRATORY GATED IMAGING; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARDIAC-GATED IMAGING TECHNIQUES; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RESPIRATORY-GATED IMAGING TECHNIQUES;

EID: 84908056694     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/59/21/6373     Document Type: Article

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