Automated image registration for FDOPA PET studies

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 41, Issue 12, 1996, Pages 2775-2788

  Lin, Kang Ping ^a   Huang, Sung Cheng ^b   Yu, Dan Chu ^b   Melega, William ^b   Barrio, Jorge R ^b   Phelps, Michael E ^b  

^a CHUNG YUAN CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

6 FLUORODOPA F 18; AMPHETAMINE; CARBIDOPA;

ALGORITHM; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN METABOLISM; HUMAN; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MONKEY; NONHUMAN; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; AUTOMATION; CERCOPITHECUS AETHIOPS; DIHYDROXYPHENYLALANINE; FLUORINE RADIOISOTOPES; HUMANS; KINETICS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES; SUPINE POSITION; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED;

EID: 0029801675     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/41/12/014     Document Type: Article

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