Automated interstudy image registration technique for SPECT and PET

Journal of Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 137-145

  Eberl, Stefan ^a   Kanno, Iwao ^b   Fulton, Roger R ^b   Ryan, Anneke ^b   Hutton, Brian F ^b   Fulham, Michael J ^b  

^a ROYAL PRINCE ALFRED HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b NONE

Author keywords

image comparison; intermodality registration; PET; SPECT

Indexed keywords

HEXAMETHYLPROPYLENE AMINE OXIME TECHNETIUM TC 99M;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY;

ALGORITHMS; BRAIN; DEOXYGLUCOSE; FLUORINE RADIOISOTOPES; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F18; GALLIUM RADIOISOTOPES; HEART; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; ORGANOTECHNETIUM COMPOUNDS; OXIMES; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TECHNETIUM TC 99M EXAMETAZIME; THALLIUM RADIOISOTOPES; THORAX; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 0029945674     PISSN: 01615505     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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