Accuracy of rigid CT-FDG-PET image registration of the liver

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 49, Issue 23, 2004, Pages 5393-5405

  van Dalen, J A ^a   Vogel, W ^a   Huisman, H J ^a   Oyen, W J G ^a   Jager, G J ^a   Karssemeijer, N ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; DATA ACQUISITION; IMAGE PROCESSING; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; TISSUE;

18F-FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE (FDG); IMAGE REGISTRATION; INSIGHT TOOLKIT (ITK); LIVER METASTASES; THRESHOLDING TECHNIQUE;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18; IOBITRIDOL; IOHEXOL; XENETIX 300;

ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LIVER METASTASIS; PERFORMANCE; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TUMOR LOCALIZATION; VALIDATION PROCESS;

FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F18; HUMANS; LIVER; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 11044230905     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/49/23/014     Document Type: Article

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