Automated Image Registration of Gated Cardiac Single-Photon Emission Computed Tomography and Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 283-290

  Aladl, Usaf E ^a   Hurwitz, Gilbert A ^a   Dey, Damini ^c   Levin, David ^a   Drangova, Maria ^b   Slomka, Piotr J ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^b ROBARTS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^c CEDARS SINAI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Cardiac imaging; Cardiac MRI; Coronary artery disease; Gated SPECT; Image registration; Image segmentation

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; CINERADIOGRAPHY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DEVICE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE; HEART MOVEMENT; HEART MUSCLE PERFUSION; HUMAN; IMAGE DISPLAY; IMAGING SYSTEM; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY;

ALGORITHMS; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING, CINE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 1542378962     PISSN: 10531807     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jmri.20003     Document Type: Article

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