Inferring stable acquisition durations for applications of perfusion imaging in oncology

Cancer Informatics

Volumn 14, Issue , 2015, Pages 193-199

  Hobbs, Brian P ^a   Ng, Chaan S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Dynamic computed tomography; Equivalence testing; Penalized splines; Perfusion imaging; Semiparametric regression

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER PROGNOSIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED SCINTIGRAPHY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; LIVER METASTASIS; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; ONCOLOGY; SCINTIGRAPHY; TISSUE PERFUSION; TUMOR VASCULARIZATION;

EID: 84930618344     PISSN: None     EISSN: 11769351     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4137/CIn.s17280     Document Type: Article

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