Computer-aided intrapatient comparison of brain SPECT images: The gray-level normalization issue applied to children with epilepsy

Journal of Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 43, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 715-724

  Pérault, Catherine ^a   Papathanassiou, Dimitri ^a   Wampach, Hubert ^a   Véra, Pierre ^a   Kaminska, Anna ^a   Chiron, Catherine ^a   Peruzzi, Philippe ^a   Liehn, Jean Claude ^a  

^a INSTITUT JEAN GODINOT   (France)

Author keywords

Brain; Epilepsy; Image comparison; Image normalization; SPECT

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; DATA ANALYSIS; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE DISPLAY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; NORMAL VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFERENCE VALUE; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY;

BRAIN; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CYSTEINE; EPILEPSIES, PARTIAL; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; ORGANOTECHNETIUM COMPOUNDS; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 0036086157     PISSN: 01615505     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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