An automated ROI setting method using NEUROSTAT on cerebral blood flow SPECT images

Annals of Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 33-41

  Ogura, Toshiyuki ^a   Hida, Kazuhiro ^a   Masuzuka, Toshihide ^a   Saito, Hisatoshi ^a   Minoshima, Satoshi ^b   Nishikawa, Kazuhiro ^c  

^a Sapporo Azabu Neurosurgical Hospital   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^c Nihon Medi Physics   (Japan)

Author keywords

Automated ROI setting; Cerebral blood flow SPECT; Inverse transformation; NEUROSTAT; VOI template

Indexed keywords

CYSTEINE ETHYL ESTER TC 99M; HEXAMETHYLPROPYLENE AMINE OXIME TECHNETIUM TC 99M; IOFETAMINE I 123; PERTECHNETIC ACID TC 99M;

ARTICLE; BASAL GANGLION; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; BRAIN PERFUSION; BRAIN REGION; CEREBELLUM CORTEX; CEREBELLUM VERMIS; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; COMPARTMENT MODEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SIMULATION; HEMISPHERE; IMAGE QUALITY; NEUROANATOMY; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OCCLUSIVE CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; PHANTOM; PONS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; THALAMUS; VALIDITY;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BRAIN; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; ROC CURVE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 60349113197     PISSN: 09147187     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12149-008-0203-7     Document Type: Article

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