Registration and fusion of multimodal vascular images: A phantom study

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5032 II, Issue , 2003, Pages 1081-1089

  Boussion, Nicolas ^a,b   De Guise, Jacques A ^a   Soulez, Gilles ^a   Daronat, Michel ^a   Cloutier, Guy ^a  

^a NOTRE DAME HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^b CENTRE HOSPITALIER DE L UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Image coregistration; Image fusion; Multimodality radiological diagnosis; Phantom; Vascular imaging

Indexed keywords

BLOOD VESSELS; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; FUZZY SETS; IMAGE PROCESSING; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OPTIMIZATION; ULTRASONIC IMAGING; X RAYS;

IMAGE FUSION;

ANGIOGRAPHY;

EID: 0042876792     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.480838     Document Type: Conference Paper

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