Display of fused images: Methods, interpretation, and diagnostic improvements

Seminars in Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 219-227

  Stokking, Rik ^a,b,c   Zubal, I George ^a,b,c   Viergever, Max A ^a,b,c  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BODY REGIONS; CLINICAL PRACTICE; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGING; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MEDICAL PRACTICE; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; METHODOLOGY; NUCLEAR IMAGING; REVIEW; SIGNAL PROCESSING; TECHNIQUE;

EID: 0038487377     PISSN: 00012998     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/snuc.2003.127311     Document Type: Article

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