Application of image registration to measurement of intervertebral rotation in the lumbar spine

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 48, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 1072-1075

  Rogers, Baxter P ^a,c   Haughton, Victor M ^b   Arfanakis, Konstantinos ^a   Meyerand, M Elizabeth ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^c Physics Department   (United States)

Author keywords

Accuracy; Axial rotation; Image registration; Lumbar spine; Precision; Spinal instability

Indexed keywords

IMAGE REGISTRATION; PHANTOMS;

ACCURACY; ACCURACY AND PRECISION; AXIAL ROTATION; CENTER OF ROTATION; LUMBAR SPINES; LUMBAR VERTEBRA; PRECISION; STANDARD IMAGES;

ROTATION;

ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; HUMAN; IMAGING SYSTEM; LUMBAR SPINE; MEASUREMENT; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHANTOM; ROTATION; SPINE INSTABILITY; VERTEBRA;

EID: 0036892921     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.10319     Document Type: Article

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