Interactive Fusion and Contrast Enhancement for Whole Body PET/CT Data Using Multi-Image Pixel Composting

IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record

Volumn 5, Issue , 2005, Pages 2618-2621

  Chan, Chung ^a,b   Kim, Jinman ^a,b   Feng, Dagan ^a,b,c   Cai, Weidong ^a,b  

^a IEEE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^c HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FUSED DATA; MULTI-IMAGE FUSION; PET/CT DIAGNOSIS;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER SYSTEMS; SENSOR DATA FUSION;

POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 33846607434     PISSN: 10957863     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/NSSMIC.2005.1596875     Document Type: Conference Paper

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