Automated three-dimensional registration of magnetic resonance and positron emission tomography brain images by multiresolution optimization of voxel similarity measures

Medical Physics

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 25-35

  Studholme, Colin ^a   Hill, Derek L G ^a   Hawkes, David J ^a  

^a GUY S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

automated registration; magnetic resonance; multiresolution optimization; positron emission tomography; voxel similarity

Indexed keywords

BRAIN MAPPING; ELECTRONS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE; MAGNETISM; POSITRONS; STATISTICS;

AUTOMATED REGISTRATION; INTENSITY VARIATIONS; MOMENTS OF THE DISTRIBUTION; MULTIRESOLUTION; MUTUAL INFORMATION MEASURES; MUTUAL INFORMATIONS; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY (PET); VOXEL SIMILARITY;

POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; BRAIN SCINTISCANNING; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0031028413     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.598130     Document Type: Article

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