• DocumentCode
    1449591
  • Title

    Response to Letter Regarding Article: “Developing DCE-CT to Quantify Intra-Tumor Heterogeneity in Breast Tumors With Differing Angiogenic Phenotype”

  • Author

    Cao, Minsong ; Liang, Yun ; Stantz, Keith M.

  • Author_Institution
    Sch. of Health Sci., Purdue Univ., West Lafayette, IN, USA
  • Volume
    29
  • Issue
    4
  • fYear
    2010
  • fDate
    4/1/2010 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    1089
  • Lastpage
    1092
  • Abstract
    In this response letter, technical issues raised by the comments concerning determination of arterial input function, cardiac and respiratory related motion artifacts, contrast agent application, and compartmental model fitting in our work are addressed in detail, and a discussion on identifying causes of uncertainty in physiological measurement and how to minimize their contribution is presented.
  • Keywords
    computerised tomography; mammography; physiology; tumours; DCE-CT development; angiogenic phenotype; arterial input function; breast tumors; cardiac related motion artifacts; compartmental model fitting; contrast agent application; dynamic contrast enhanced computed tomography; intratumor heterogeneity; physiological measurement; respiratory related motion artifacts; Compartmental model; dynamic contrast enhanced computed tomography (DCE-CT); tumor heterogeneity;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Medical Imaging, IEEE Transactions on
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0278-0062
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/TMI.2009.2039224
  • Filename
    5437346