Automated 3-dimensional elastic registration of whole-body PET and CT from separate or combined scanners

Journal of Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 46, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 1488-1496

  Shekhar, Raj ^a,f   Walimbe, Vivek ^b,c   Raja, Shanker ^d   Zagrodsky, Vladimir ^b   Kanvinde, Mangesh ^e   Wu, Guiyun ^b   Bybel, Bohdan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d LAHEY HOSPITAL AND MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^e Medina General Hospital   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Elastic registration; Image fusion; Image registration; Multimodality; Whole body PET CT

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BODY REGIONS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; HUMAN; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; WHOLE BODY SCINTISCANNING; ALGORITHM; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; ELASTICITY; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE SUBTRACTION; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; WHOLE BODY COUNTING;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; ELASTICITY; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SUBTRACTION TECHNIQUE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; WHOLE-BODY COUNTING;

EID: 27744442364     PISSN: 01615505     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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