Fully automated establishment of stereotaxic image orientation in six degrees of freedom for technetium-99m-ECD brain SPECT

Journal of Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 503-508

  Tsao, Jeffrey ^a   Stundzia, Audrius ^a   Ichise, Masanori ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b MOUNT SINAI HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Automation; Brain SPECT; Image orientation; Image processing; Technetium 99m ECD

Indexed keywords

CYSTEINE ETHYL ESTER TC 99M;

ADULT; AGED; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; BRAIN; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MALE; ORIENTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY;

ADULT; AGED; ALGORITHMS; BRAIN; CYSTEINE; DEMENTIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ORGANOTECHNETIUM COMPOUNDS; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; REFERENCE VALUES; STEREOTAXIC TECHNIQUES; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 0031881468     PISSN: 01615505     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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