Improved efficiency for MRI-SPET registration based on mutual information

European Journal of Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 27, Issue 7, 2000, Pages 847-856

  Thurfjell, L ^a,e   Lau, Y H ^b,c   Andersson, J L R ^d   Hutton, B F ^b  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b WESTMEAD HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

^d WELLCOME TRUST CENTRE FOR NEUROIMAGING   (United Kingdom)

^e Centre for Image Analysis   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Image registration; Mutual information

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; AUTORADIOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; HISTOGRAM; IMAGE INTENSIFIER; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 0033937034     PISSN: 03406997     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002590000270     Document Type: Article

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