Extracting VOIs from brain PET images

International Journal of Medical Informatics

Volumn 58-59, Issue , 2000, Pages 51-57

  Mykkänen, Jouni M ^a   Juhola, Martti ^a   Ruotsalainen, Ulla ^a  

^a TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

Author keywords

Positron emission tomography; Region of interest; Volume of interest

Indexed keywords

BRAIN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MEDICAL COMPUTING; TISSUE;

REGION OF INTEREST; THREE DIMENSIONAL TARGET FLOOD-FILL; VOLUME OF INTEREST;

POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

ANATOMY; BIOMEDICAL TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT; BRAIN INJURY; BRAIN SIZE; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; IMAGE ANALYSIS; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW;

ALGORITHMS; CORPUS STRIATUM; DIHYDROXYPHENYLALANINE; FLUORINE RADIOISOTOPES; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; SOFTWARE; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED;

EID: 17144455710     PISSN: 13865056     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1386-5056(00)00075-7     Document Type: Article

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