Nonparametric and nonrigid registration method applied to myocardial-gated SPECT

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 49 I, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 782-788

  Debreuve, Éric ^b,c,d   Barlaud, Michel ^a,c   Laurette, Ivan ^d   Aubert, Gilles ^e   Darcourt, Jacques ^a,d  

^a IEEE

^b UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NICE SOPHIA ANTIPOLIS   (France)

^d UNIVERSITÉ CÔTE D'AZUR   (France)

^e UNIVERSITÉ DE NICE SOPHIA ANTIPOLIS   (France)

Author keywords

Gated SPECT sequence; Level sets; Organ contour; Signal to noise ratio (SNR); Three dimensional (3 D) nonrigid registration

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MOTION COMPENSATION; OPTIMIZATION; PATTERN MATCHING; PHOTONS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

NONRIGID REGISTRATION METHOD; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 0036624358     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2002.1039563     Document Type: Article

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