Anatomical data fusion for quantitative reconstruction in myocardial tomoscintigraphy using a spline model of the thorax organs

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 44, Issue 7, 1997, Pages 575-584

  Coutand, Frédérique ^a  

^a INSTITUT D'OPTIQUE GRADUATE SCHOOL   (France)

Author keywords

Anatomical data fusion; Reconstruction; Spline modeling; Tomoscintigraphy

Indexed keywords

ESTIMATION; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MEDICAL IMAGING; MUSCULOSKELETAL SYSTEM;

ANATOMICAL DATA FUSION; MYOCARDIAL TOMOSCINTIGRAPHY; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; THORAX;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

ARTICLE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE WALL; HEART SCINTISCANNING; QUANTITATIVE DIAGNOSIS; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; THORAX; TOMOSCINTIGRAPHY;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; HEART; HUMANS; MATHEMATICS; MODELS, ANATOMIC; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; SCATTERING, RADIATION; THORAX; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 0031195199     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/10.594898     Document Type: Article

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