Advanced PET/CT fusion workstation for oncology imaging

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 5744, Issue II, 2005, Pages 670-676

  Lau, Christopher ^a   Pathak, Sayan D ^a,d   Gong, Lixin ^a   Kinahan, Paul ^c   Cheng, Philip ^e   Ng, Lydia ^b  

^a Insightful Corporation   (United States)

^b ALLEN INSTITUTE FOR BRAIN SCIENCE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^e CEDARS SINAI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

CT PET fusion; Deformable registration; Fusion display interface

Indexed keywords

CT/PET FUSION; DEFORMABLE REGISTRATION; FUSION DISPLAY INTERFACE; X-RAY CT;

DEFORMATION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ONCOLOGY; PLANNING; POLYETHYLENE TEREPHTHALATES; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

IMAGING TECHNIQUES;

EID: 23244461848     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.594749     Document Type: Conference Paper

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