Automated registration of frontal and lateral radionuclide lung scans with digital chest radiographs

Academic Radiology

Volumn 7, Issue 7, 2000, Pages 530-539

  Armato III, Samuel G ^a   Giger, Maryellen L ^a   Chen, Chin Tu ^a   Vyborny, Carl J ^a,b   Ryan, James ^a   MacMahon, Heber ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b LaGrange Memorial Hospital   (United States)

Author keywords

Digital chest radiography; Image registration; Radionuclide lung scan studies; Ventilation perfusion (V Q) images

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; LUNG PERFUSION; LUNG SCINTISCANNING; LUNG VENTILATION; MALE; OPTICAL RESOLUTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

EID: 0033921817     PISSN: 10766332     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1076-6332(00)80326-8     Document Type: Article

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