Measurement of myocardial wall thickening from PET/SPECT images: Comparison of two methods

Journal of Computer Assisted Tomography

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 473-481

  Bartlett, Marissa L ^a   Buvat, Irene ^b   Vaquero, Juan Jose ^c   Mok, David ^a   Dilsizian, Vasken ^a   Bacharach, Stephen L ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c UNIVERSIDAD POLITÉCNICA DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

Emission computed tomography; Heart; Image registration

Indexed keywords

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; ERRORS; NUCLEAR MEDICINE;

EMISSION COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; FULL WIDTHS AT HALF MAXIMUMS; IMAGE COMPARISON; IMAGES REGISTRATION; MATHEMATICAL SIMULATIONS; MEASUREMENTS OF; METHOD MODEL; PET/SPECT; SPECT IMAGES; WALL THICKENING;

MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; HEART SCINTISCANNING; HEART VENTRICLE HYPERTROPHY; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; MALE; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 0029964515     PISSN: 03638715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00004728-199605000-00031     Document Type: Article

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