Quantifying the impact of respiratory-gated 4D CT acquisition on thoracic image quality: A digital phantom study

Medical Physics

Volumn 42, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 324-334

  Bernatowicz, K ^a,b   Keall, P ^c   Mishra, P ^d   Knopf, A ^a,b   Lomax, A ^a,b   Kipritidis, J ^c  

^a PAUL SCHERRER INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^d HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

beam paused 4D CT; image quality assessment; respiratory gated 4D CT; XCAT phantom

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DEFORMATION; ERRORS; IMAGE ACQUISITION; MEAN SQUARE ERROR; PATIENT TREATMENT; PHANTOMS; RESPIRATORY MECHANICS; TUMORS;

BEAM PAUSED 4D CT; DIGITAL PHANTOMS; IMAGE ARTEFACTS; IMAGE QUALITY ASSESSMENT; LUNG TISSUE; LUNG VOLUME; PHANTOMS; RESPIRATORY-GATED 4D CT; TUMOR MOTION; XCAT PHANTOM;

IMAGE QUALITY;

ARTICLE; CANCER PATIENT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSIMETRY; FOUR DIMENSIONAL COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; LUNG CANCER; LUNG PARENCHYMA; LUNG STRUCTURE; PROTON THERAPY; RADIATION DOSE REDUCTION; RESPIRATORY GATED IMAGING; THORAX; TOTAL LUNG CAPACITY; TUMOR VOLUME; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BREATHING; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DEVICES; LUNG; LUNG TUMOR; LUNG VOLUME; MOTION; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; RADIOGRAPHY; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TIME;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FOUR-DIMENSIONAL COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; HUMANS; LUNG; LUNG NEOPLASMS; LUNG VOLUME MEASUREMENTS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOTION; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RADIOGRAPHY, THORACIC; RESPIRATION; RESPIRATORY-GATED IMAGING TECHNIQUES; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84920143728     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: 24734209     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.4903936     Document Type: Article

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