Design and construction of a realistic digital brain phantom

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 463-468

  Collins, D L ^a   Zijdenbos, A P ^a   Kollokian, V ^a   Sled, J G ^a   Kabani, N J ^a   Holmes, C J ^a   Evans, A C ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Brain phantom; Magnetic resonance imaging; Positron emission tomography; Simulation, testing; Validation

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN; COMPUTER ASSISTED EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING;

BRAIN; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED;

ALGORITHMS; BRAIN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

INTERMODALITY REGISTRATION ALGORITHM;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

EID: 0032081266     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/42.712135     Document Type: Article

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