Comparison of mutual information-based warping accuracy for fusing body CT and PET by 2 methods: CT mapped onto PET emission scan versus CT mapped onto PET transmission scan

Journal of Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 43, Issue 9, 2002, Pages 1184-1187

  Skalski, Joseph ^a   Wahl, Richard L ^a   Meyer, Charles R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

CT; Emission; Fusion; Lesion centroids; Mutual information; PET; Registration; Transmission

Indexed keywords

FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18;

ALGORITHM; ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; CANCER PATIENT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LUNG CANCER; PATIENT POSITIONING; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY;

ALGORITHMS; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LUNG NEOPLASMS; NEOPLASM STAGING; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0036735359     PISSN: 01615505     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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