Automated Registration of Ventilation-Perfusion Images with Digital Chest Radiographs

Academic Radiology

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 183-192

  Armato III, Samuel G ^a   Giger, Maryellen L ^a   MacMahon, Heber ^a   Chen, Chin Tu ^a   Vyborny, Carl J ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b LaGrange Memorial Hospital   (United States)

Author keywords

Computers, diagnostic aid; Images, display; Images, processing; Thorax, radiography; Thorax, radionuclide studies

Indexed keywords

DIAGNOSTIC AGENT; XENON;

ADULT; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; LUNG; LUNG EMBOLISM; LUNG VENTILATION PERFUSION RATIO; MALE; METHODOLOGY; RADIOGRAPHY; SCINTISCANNING;

ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LUNG; MALE; PULMONARY EMBOLISM; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; VENTILATION-PERFUSION RATIO; XENON RADIOISOTOPES;

EID: 0031090504     PISSN: 10766332     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1076-6332(05)80289-2     Document Type: Article

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