Crystal identification in positron emission tomography using nonrigid registration to a Fourier-based template

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 53, Issue 18, 2008, Pages 5011-5027

  Chaudhari, Abhijit J ^a   Joshi, Anand A ^b   Bowen, Spencer L ^a   Leahy, Richard M ^b   Cherry, Simon R ^a   Badawi, Ramsey D ^c  

^a University of California   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AVALANCHES (SNOWSLIDES); CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; DETECTORS; DIAGNOSTIC RADIOGRAPHY; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; LIGHT EMISSION; LUMINESCENCE; MEDICAL IMAGING; PHOTOMULTIPLIERS; PLASTIC BOTTLES; POLYNOMIAL APPROXIMATION; POSITRON ANNIHILATION SPECTROSCOPY; POSITRONS; POWDERS; SCINTILLATION; SCINTILLATION COUNTERS; SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE MODELS; SNOW; THERMOGRAPHY (TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT); TOMOGRAPHY; TUBES (COMPONENTS);

ADAPTIVE METHODS; ANNIHILATION PHOTONS; CRYSTAL IDENTIFICATION; DISPLACEMENT FIELDS; DISTORTION REDUCTION; FOURIER; MANUAL SEGMENTATION; NON-RIGID REGISTRATION; PET DETECTORS; PHOTO MULTIPLIER TUBE; PHOTO-MULTIPLIER TUBES; POSITION-SENSITIVE; POSITRON EMISSION; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY (PET); RECONSTRUCTED IMAGES; SCINTILLATION CRYSTALS; SCINTILLATOR ARRAYS; SEGMENTATION SCHEME; SEMI AUTOMATICS; SPACE ANALYSIS; SPATIAL FREQUENCIES; SYSTEM MODELLING; TEMPLATE IMAGES; VERTICAL LINES;

POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; CRYSTAL; FOURIER ANALYSIS; HISTOGRAM; IMAGE ANALYSIS; PHANTOM; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DETECTOR; SPATIAL FREQUENCY DISCRIMINATION;

EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; FOURIER ANALYSIS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SUBTRACTION TECHNIQUE; TRANSDUCERS;

EID: 51849135957     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/53/18/011     Document Type: Article

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