Mean regional cerebral blood flow images of normal subjects using Technetium-99m-HMPAO by automated image registration

Journal of Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 203-207

  Imran, Muhammad Babar ^a   Kawashima, Ryuta ^a   Sato, Kazunori ^a   Kinomura, Shigeo ^a   Ito, Hiroshi ^a   Koyama, Masamichi ^a   Goto, Ryoi ^a   Ono, Shuichi ^a   Yoshioka, Seiro ^a   Fukuda, Hiroshi ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Automated image registration; HMPAO brain SPECT; Image alignment; Regional cerebral blood flow

Indexed keywords

HEXAMETHYLPROPYLENE AMINE OXIME TECHNETIUM TC 99M;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; BRAIN RADIOGRAPHY; BRAIN REGION; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; NORMAL HUMAN; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; PONS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; TEMPORAL CORTEX; WHITE MATTER;

BRAIN; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MIDDLE AGED; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; REFERENCE VALUES; SOFTWARE VALIDATION; TECHNETIUM TC 99M EXAMETAZIME; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0031951123     PISSN: 01615505     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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