Automated 3-Dimensional registration of stand-alone 18F-FDG whole-body PET with CT

Journal of Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 44, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 1156-1167

  Slomka, Piotr J ^a,b   Dey, Damini ^b   Przetak, Christian ^c   Aladl, Usaf E ^a   Baum, Richard P ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^b CEDARS SINAI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c PET Center   (Germany)

Author keywords

Image fusion; Image registration; Multimodality; Nonlinear registration; Thoracic PET

Indexed keywords

FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18; DIAGNOSTIC AGENT; RADIOPHARMACEUTICAL AGENT;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BREATH HOLDING; COMPUTER ASSISTED EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE DISPLAY; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; LABORATORY AUTOMATION; LUNG VOLUME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; EVALUATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE SUBTRACTION; LUNG; MALE; METHODOLOGY; RADIOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCINTISCANNING; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; VALIDATION STUDY; WHOLE BODY COUNTING;

ALGORITHMS; FEMALE; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F18; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; LUNG; MALE; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SUBTRACTION TECHNIQUE; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; WHOLE-BODY COUNTING;

EID: 0042388336     PISSN: 01615505     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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