Automatic three-dimensional multimodality registration using radionuclide transmission CT attenuation maps: A phantom study

Journal of Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 448-455

  Dey, Damini ^b   Slomka, Piotr J ^a   Hahn, Leszek J ^b   Kloiber, Reinhard ^b  

^a LONDON HEALTH SCIENCES CENTRE   (Canada)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Automated image registration; Coregistration; Transmission attenuation maps

Indexed keywords

RADIOISOTOPE; TECHNETIUM 99M;

ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEART; IMAGE PROCESSING; LINEAR ENERGY TRANSFER; NONHUMAN; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION ATTENUATION; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TRUNK;

IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0033021733     PISSN: 01615505     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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