FPGA-accelerated deformable image registration for improved target-delineation during CT-guided interventions

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Circuits and Systems

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 116-127

  Dandekar, Omkar ^a,b   Shekhar, Raj ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

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

Author keywords

Computer tomography (CT) guided interventions; Field programmable gate arrays (FPGA); Image registration; Mutual information

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER HARDWARE; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; FIELD PROGRAMMABLE GATE ARRAYS (FPGA); IMAGE REGISTRATION; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

IMAGE-GUIDED INTERVENTIONS; INTRAPROCEDURAL NONCONTRAST CT; PREPROCEDURAL CONTRAST ENHANCED CT;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 36348933823     PISSN: 19324545     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TBCAS.2007.909023     Document Type: Article

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