Four‐dimensional (4D) PET/CT imaging of the thorax: 4D PET/CT

SA Nehmeh, YE Erdi, T Pan, A Pevsner… - Medical …, 2004 - Wiley Online Library
… of 4D-PET (Gated PET) acquisition, to reduce respiratory motion artifact in PET imaging of
… address the problem of respiration motion in PET/CT imaging. The respiratory motion of four …

Generation of 4-dimensional CT images based on 4-dimensional PET–derived motion fields

HJ Fayad, F Lamare, CC Le Rest… - Journal of Nuclear …, 2013 - Soc Nuclear Med
… sufficient statistics for the accurate derivation of 4D CT series from the 4D NAC PET images.
… of producing a 4D CT series from the corresponding NAC 4D PET images and a single …

Evaluation of the combined effects of target size, respiratory motion and background activity on 3D and 4D PET/CT images

SJ Park, D Ionascu, J Killoran, M Mamede… - Physics in Medicine …, 2008 - iopscience.iop.org
… profiles from (a) 3D-PET/3D-CT and (b) 4D-PET/4DCT images of the 0.5 mL sphere (10 mm
… profiles from (a) 3D-PET/3D-CT and (b) 4D-PET/4DCT images of the 16 mL sphere (31 mm …

Clinical utility of 4D FDG-PET/CT scans in radiation treatment planning

M Aristophanous, RI Berbeco, JH Killoran… - International Journal of …, 2012 - Elsevier
… the 4D PET scan with the 4D CTimaging by use of fluoroscopy or 4D CT. If a large range
of motion of the tumor is observed, a 4D PET scan could be prescribed in situations where PET

Attenuation correction of PET images with respiration-averaged CT images in PET/CT

T Pan, O Mawlawi, SA Nehmeh, YE Erdi… - Journal of Nuclear …, 2005 - Soc Nuclear Med
4D CT data to obtain ACT for AC of the PETCT data for quantification of the PET data. On
the basis of our experience with 4D PET/CT studies (18–20), most tumors examined by PET

Improvement of the cine‐CT based 4DCT imaging

T Pan, X Sun, D Luo - Medical physics, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
images may not require a respiratory signal. We proposed the application of MIP CT images
from 4D-CT … sorting the cine CT images to 4D-CT images, MIP and AVG CT images, please …

Quantitation of respiratory motion during 4DPET/CT acquisition

SA Nehmeh, YE Erdi, T Pan, E Yorke… - Medical …, 2004 - Wiley Online Library
… the CT and PET image sets, especially in the thorax, is a major problem for diagnostic
accuracy. Because CT images are used to correct for attenuation in PET images, a … the 4D-PET/CT

Attenuation correction of four dimensional (4D) PET using phase-correlated 4D-computed tomography

F Pönisch, C Richter, U Just… - Physics in Medicine & …, 2008 - iopscience.iop.org
PET images has been analyzed. The results demonstrate the feasibility of such a procedure,
and we therefore recommend that 4D-PET data should be reconstructed using 4D-CT data, …

Motion artifacts occurring at the lung/diaphragm interface using 4D CT attenuation correction of 4D PET scans

JH Killoran, VH Gerbaudo, M Mamede… - Journal of Applied …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
… The purpose of this study is to evaluate the performance of 4D PET imaging, and examine
the choice of attenuation correction method using a phantom designed to represent the lung–…

Usefulness of four dimensional (4D) PET/CT imaging in the evaluation of thoracic lesions and in radiotherapy planning: Review of the literature

A Sindoni, F Minutoli, A Pontoriero, G Iatì, S Baldari… - Lung Cancer, 2016 - Elsevier
… a significant impact on 4D-PET images. The consistency of … PET/CT images, and their RB
method have improved 4D PETimage sets via automatic co-registrations of 4D CT-FDG PET