An automated technique for SPECT marker-based image registration in radionuclide therapy

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 46, Issue 8, 2001, Pages 2085-2097

  Papavasileiou, P ^a   Flux, G D ^a   Flower, M A ^a   Guy, M J ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF CANCER RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); ITERATIVE METHODS; RADIOISOTOPES;

IMAGE REGISTRATION;

MEDICINE;

MARKER; RADIOISOTOPE;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; CALCULATION; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; ERROR; IMAGE DISPLAY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOISOTOPE THERAPY; REGISTRATION; SIMULATION; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; TECHNIQUE; WEIGHT;

ALGORITHMS; AUTOMATION; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOISOTOPES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TECHNETIUM; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 0034884514     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/46/8/304     Document Type: Article

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