Automatic method to assess local CT-MR imaging registration accuracy on images of the head

American Journal of Neuroradiology

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 137-144

  Pappas, Ion P I ^a   Styner, Martin ^a   Malik, Puja ^a   Remonda, Luca ^a   Caversaccio, Marco ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BONE STRUCTURE; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; HEAD; NOISE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; REGISTRATION; ALGORITHM; ARTIFACT; BRAIN; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE PROCESSING; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; QUALITY CONTROL; REPRODUCIBILITY; SKULL; STATISTICS; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFACTS; BRAIN; DATA COLLECTION; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; QUALITY CONTROL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SKULL; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 18744399588     PISSN: 01956108     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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