Image registration: An essential tool for nuclear medicine

European Journal of Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 559-577

  Hutton, Brian F ^a   Braun, Michael ^a,b   Thurfjell, Lennart ^a,c   Lau, Dennys Y ^a  

^a WESTMEAD HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

^c UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Anatomical functional comparison; Emission tomography; Image fusion; Image registration; Multimodality comparison

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER ASSISTED EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; IMAGE DISPLAY; INSTRUMENT; MEDICAL PRACTICE; MONITORING; NUCLEAR MEDICINE; REVIEW; TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT PLANNING; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; REGISTRATION; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY;

ALGORITHMS; BRAIN; DATA DISPLAY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NUCLEAR MEDICINE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; QUALITY CONTROL; RADIOLOGY INFORMATION SYSTEMS; RADIONUCLIDE IMAGING; REGISTRIES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SOFTWARE VALIDATION; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0036202169     PISSN: 03406997     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00259-001-0700-6     Document Type: Review

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