Software for image registration: Algorithms, accuracy, efficacy

Seminars in Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 180-192

  Hutton, Brian F ^a,b   Braun, Michael ^a,b  

^a WESTMEAD HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ALGORITHM; ANALYTICAL PARAMETERS; CLINICAL MEDICINE; COMMERCIAL PHENOMENA; COMPUTER; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DECISION MAKING; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; HISTOGRAM; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGING; MEDICAL RESEARCH; NUCLEAR IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEAR MEDICINE; REGISTRATION; REVIEW; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; VALIDATION PROCESS;

EID: 0038148748     PISSN: 00012998     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/snuc.2003.127309     Document Type: Article

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