Simultaneous surface registration of ictal and interictal spect and magnetic resonance images for epilepsy studies

Nuclear Medicine Communications

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 45-55

  Mumcuoğlu, Erkan Ü ^a   Nar, Fatih ^b   Koçak, Umut ^b   Ergün, Eser Lay ^b   Salanc, Bilge Volkan ^b   Uğur, Ömer ^b   Erbaş, Belks ^b  

^a MIDDLE EAST TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b HACETTEPE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

MRI; Registration; SISCOM; SPECT

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BRAIN; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EPILEPSY; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE SUBTRACTION; METHODOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SCINTISCANNING; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; GELASTIC SEIZURE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; SIMULATION;

ALGORITHMS; BRAIN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EPILEPSY; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SUBTRACTION TECHNIQUE; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

CYSTEINE ETHYL ESTER TC 99M;

EID: 33645212733     PISSN: 01433636     EISSN: 14735628     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.mnm.0000189775.75743.0b     Document Type: Article

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