Correlation of SPECT and PET cardiac images by a surface matching registration technique

Computerized Medical Imaging and Graphics

Volumn 22, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 391-398

  Gilardi, Maria Carla ^a   Rizzo, Giovanna ^a   Savi, Annarita ^a   Landoni, Claudio ^a   Bettinardi, Valentino ^a   Rossetti, Claudio ^a   Striano, Giuseppe ^a   Fazio, Ferruccio ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^b SAN RAFFAELE HOSPITAL   (Italy)

Author keywords

Cardiac imaging; Image registration; PET; SPECT

Indexed keywords

CARDIOLOGY; CORRELATION METHODS; ERROR ANALYSIS; IMAGE RECORDING; MEDICAL IMAGING; PHOTONS;

SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

AMMONIA; NITROGEN 13; THALLIUM 201;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; FEMALE; HEART FUNCTION; HUMAN; MALE; NONHUMAN; PHANTOM; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; SURFACE PROPERTY; TECHNIQUE;

AMMONIA; CORONARY DISEASE; EVALUATION STUDIES; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F18; GLUCOSE; HEART; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; MYOCARDIUM; NITROGEN RADIOISOTOPES; PAPILLARY MUSCLES; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; THALLIUM RADIOISOTOPES; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; TRACHEA;

EID: 0032172353     PISSN: 08956111     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0895-6111(98)00039-1     Document Type: Article

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