PET-CT image registration in the chest using free-form deformations

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 120-128

  Mattes, David ^a   Haynor, David R ^b   Vesselle, Hubert ^b   Lewellen, Thomas K ^b   Eubank, William ^b  

^a BOEING COMPANY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Computed tomography (CT); Deformation; Multimodality; Multiresolution; Mutual information; Nonlinear; Nonrigid; Positron emission tomography (PET); Registration; Validation

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; ONCOLOGY; OPTIMIZATION; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; TISSUE;

CHEST; FREE FORM DEFORMATIONS; IMAGE REGISTRATION; IMAGING PROTOCOLS; LIMITED MEMORY QUASI-NEWTON OPTIMIZATION ALGORITHMS; LUNG CANCER;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

DIAGNOSTIC AGENT; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18; RADIOPHARMACEUTICAL AGENT;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; COMPUTER ASSISTED EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; EVALUATION; HUMAN; IMAGE SUBTRACTION; LUNG NON SMALL CELL CANCER; LUNG TUMOR; METHODOLOGY; MOTION; RADIOGRAPHY; SCINTISCANNING; THORAX; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; VALIDATION STUDY;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFACTS; CARCINOMA, NON-SMALL-CELL LUNG; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F18; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MOTION; RADIOGRAPHY, THORACIC; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; SUBTRACTION TECHNIQUE; THORAX; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED;

EID: 0037255821     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMI.2003.809072     Document Type: Article

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