Evaluation of the limits of visual detection of image misregistration in a brain fluorine-18 fluorodeoxyglucose PET-MRI study

European Journal of Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 24, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 642-650

  Wong, Joseph C H ^a,b   Studholme, Colin ^a   Hawkes, David J ^a   Maisey, Michael N ^a  

^a GUY'S AND ST THOMAS' NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^b ROYAL BRISBANE AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

Brain positron emission tomography magnetic resonance imaging study; Image registration; Visual detection

Indexed keywords

FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18;

ARTICLE; BRAIN METABOLISM; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OBSERVER VARIATION; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; REGISTRATION; ROTATION;

BRAIN; DEOXYGLUCOSE; FLUORINE RADIOISOTOPES; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F18; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OBSERVER VARIATION; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED;

EID: 0030748037     PISSN: 03406997     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002590050099     Document Type: Article

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