Towards truly integrated hardware fusion with PET/CT

NuklearMedizin

Volumn 44, Issue 5 A SUPPL. 1, 2005, Pages

  Beyer, Thomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ESSEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Image fusion; Multi modality imaging; PET CT tomograph

Indexed keywords

CONTRAST MEDIUM; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE;

CANCER DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER; COMPUTER ASSISTED EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGING SYSTEM; NON INVASIVE MEASUREMENT; PATIENT POSITIONING; RADIOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; REVIEW;

EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; SOFTWARE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 27644450165     PISSN: 00295566     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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