Automatic motion correction in dynamic radionuclide renography using image registration

Nuclear Medicine Communications

Volumn 19, Issue 12, 1998, Pages 1159-1168

  Lee, K J ^a   Barber, D C ^a  

^a ROYAL HALLAMSHIRE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; KIDNEY; RENOGRAPHY; SCINTISCANNING;

AUTOMATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTING METHODOLOGIES; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; KIDNEY; MOVEMENT; RADIOISOTOPE RENOGRAPHY;

EID: 0032427520     PISSN: 01433636     EISSN: 14735628     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00006231-199812000-00008     Document Type: Article

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