Validation of fully automatic brain SPET to MR co-registration

European Journal of Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 147-154

  Barnden, Leighton ^a   Kwiatek, Richard ^a   Lau, Yiu ^b   Hutton, Brian ^c   Thurfjell, Lennart ^d   Pile, Kevin ^a   Rowe, Christopher ^a  

^a QUEEN ELIZABETH HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

^c WESTMEAD HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^d UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Image registration; Magnetic resonance; Modality images; Multi; Photon emission tomography; Single; Validation

Indexed keywords

HEXAMETHYLPROPYLENE AMINE OXIME TECHNETIUM TC 99M;

ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; BRAIN SCINTISCANNING; CALIBRATION; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; FUNCTIONAL ANATOMY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HUMAN TISSUE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; NEUROANATOMY; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; VALIDATION PROCESS;

EID: 0033952404     PISSN: 03406997     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002590050020     Document Type: Article

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