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[Extraction of respiratory signals from chest tomosynthesis]
1School of Biomedical Engineering, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou 510000 China.
Objective:
To analyze the respiratory motion of the scanned object during acquisition of digital chest tomosynthesis (CTS) using a linear model.
Objective:
Respiratory signals were generated by extracting the motion of the diaphragm from the projection radiographs. The diaphragm trajectory obtained by dynamic programming (DP) was modeled and fitted, and according to the fitting of the data, the base motion curve and respiratory signal curve of the diaphragm were separated. Multipurpose chest phantom data, simulated digital Xcat phantom data and the datasets of 3 clinical patients were used to validate the performance of the proposed method.
Objective:
The motion trajectory of the diaphragm extracted from multipurpose chest phantom simulation data was linear. The respiratory signals could be effectively extracted from the 3 datasets of clinical patients in different respiratory states. The correlation coefficient between the respiratory signal extracted in Xcat simulation experiment and the original design was 0.9797.
Objective:
The linear model can effectively obtain the respiratory motion information of patients in real time, thus enabling the physicians to make clinical decisions on a rescan.
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