Publications by authors named "David C Barber"

Background: Due to differences in the design and acquisition parameters on the solid-state CZT cardiac camera the effect of patient motion may vary compared to Anger cameras. This study evaluates the effect of motion, two new methods of three-dimensional (3D) motion detection and a method of motion correction.

Method: Phantom acquisitions were offset in the X, Y, and Z directions and combined to simulate different types of motion.

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Analysis of the cardiovascular system represents a classical problem in which the solid and fluid phases interact intimately, and so is a rich field of application for state-of-the-art fluid-solid interaction (FSI) analyses. In this paper, we focus on the human aorta. Solution of the full FSI problem requires knowledge of the material properties of the wall and information on vessel support.

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Objective: The aim of the study was to develop and evaluate a registration-based motion correction algorithm as a method of reducing respiratory motion artefacts in myocardial perfusion imaging.

Materials And Methods: The NCAT software was used to build nine male and nine female computer simulations of myocardial perfusion imaging data, with different respiratory motions and left ventricular ejection fractions. Imaging data were generated at various time points throughout each cardiac cycle.

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In-silico continuum simulations of organ and tissue scale physiology often require a discretisation or mesh of the solution domain. Cubic Hermite meshes provide a smooth representation of anatomy that is well-suited for simulating large deformation mechanics. Models of organ mechanics and deformation have demonstrated significant potential for clinical application.

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Purpose: Head and neck radiotherapy planning with positron emission tomography/computed tomography (PET/CT) requires the images to be reliably registered with treatment planning CT. Acquiring PET/CT in treatment position is problematic, and in practice for some patients it may be beneficial to use diagnostic PET/CT for radiotherapy planning. Therefore, the aim of this study was first to quantify the image registration accuracy of PET/CT to radiotherapy CT and, second, to assess whether PET/CT acquired in diagnostic position can be registered to planning CT.

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In this paper we propose a method for the nonrigid registration of contrast-enhanced dynamic sequences of magnetic resonance(MR) images. The algorithm has been developed with accuracy in mind, but also has a clinically viable execution time (i.e.

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Gamma knife treatments are usually planned manually, requiring much expertise and time. We describe a new, fully automatic method of treatment planning. The treatment volume to be planned is first compared with a database of past treatments to find volumes closely matching in size and shape.

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