Development of External Fiducial Markers for Image Registration in Small Animal SPECT/CT

IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference

Volumn 2, Issue , 2002, Pages 842-845

  Sakdinawat, Anne E ^a   Iwata, Koji ^b   Hwang, Andrew B ^a   Tang, Hamilton R ^c   Wong, Kenneth H ^d   Hasegawa, Bruce H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Photon Imaging Inc   (United States)

^c Signature Bioscience   (United States)

^d GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION;

ANIMAL IMAGING SYSTEMS;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

EID: 0142148117     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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