Accuracy of coregistration of single-photon emission CT with MR via a brain surface matching technique

American Journal of Neuroradiology

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 793-797

  Hogan, R Edward ^a,b,c   Cook, Mark J ^a,b   Kilpatrick, Christine J ^a   Binns, David W ^a   Desmond, Patricia M ^a   Morris, Kevin ^b  

^a ROYAL MELBOURNE HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b Australian Computing and Communications Institute   (Australia)

^c SAINT LOUIS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Computed tomography, technique; Magnetic resonance, technique; Single photon emission computed tomography

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; NEURORADIOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY;

BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ORGANOTECHNETIUM COMPOUNDS; OXIMES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TECHNETIUM TC 99M EXAMETAZIME; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 0029938961     PISSN: 01956108     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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