Use of the CT component of PET-CT to improve PET-MR registration: Demonstration in soft-tissue sarcoma

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 52, Issue 23, 2007, Pages 6991-7006

  Somer, Edward J ^a   Benatar, Nigel A ^b   O'Doherty, Michael J ^a   Smith, Mike A ^a   Marsden, Paul K ^a  

^a GUY'S AND ST THOMAS' NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^b Cheltenham Imaging Centre   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

EXTERNAL MARKER; RIGID-BODY REGISTRATION; SOFT-TISSUE SARCOMAS; TARGET REGISTRATION ERRORS;

IMAGE REGISTRATION;

FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18;

ARTICLE; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MEASUREMENT; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOFT TISSUE SARCOMA;

ALGORITHMS; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SARCOMA; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SOFT TISSUE NEOPLASMS; SUBTRACTION TECHNIQUE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 36348941078     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/52/23/015     Document Type: Article

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