Combining anatomy and function: The path to true image fusion

European Radiology

Volumn 11, Issue 10, 2001, Pages 1968-1974

  Townsend, David W ^b   Cherry, Simon R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

CT; Image fusion; MR; Multi modality imaging; PET

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANATOMY; ARTICLE; BRAIN; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVICE; DIAGNOSIS; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; ELECTRONICS; EVALUATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MAGNETIC FIELD; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY; NON INVASIVE MEASUREMENT; PHYSICAL DISEASE; PHYSIOLOGY; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPATIAL ORIENTATION; STAGING;

DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FORECASTING; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0034794952     PISSN: 09387994     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s003300101007     Document Type: Article

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