Contrast enhancement in emission tomography by way of synergistic PET/CT image combination

Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine

Volumn 90, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 191-201

  Boussion, N ^a   Hatt, M ^a   Lamare, F ^b   Rest, C Cheze Le ^a   Visvikis, D ^a  

^a CHU MORVAN   (France)

^b MRC CLINICAL SCIENCES CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

CT; Image combination; Image display; PET; Wavelets

Indexed keywords

DISCRETE WAVELET TRANSFORMS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE FUSION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SCANNING; SYNCHRONIZATION;

CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE COMBINATION; IMAGE DISPLAY; SCANNERS;

POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; WAVEFORM;

ALGORITHMS; CONTRAST MEDIA; HUMANS; NEOPLASMS; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 42449110867     PISSN: 01692607     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cmpb.2007.12.009     Document Type: Article

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