Automatic registration of cardiac PET/CT for attenuation correction

IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 5512-5517

  Bond, Sarah ^a   Kadir, Timor ^a   Hamill, James ^b   Casey, Michael ^b   Platsch, Guenther ^a   Burckhardt, Darrell ^c   Eisner, Robert ^d   Kaustubh, Navin ^e   Declerck, Jerome ^a  

^a SIEMENS AG   (Germany)

^b SIEMENS CORPORATE RESEARCH   (United States)

^c Molecular Imaging   (United States)

^d EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e Siemens Ltd India   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATTENUATION CORRECTION; AUTOMATIC REGISTRATION; CARDIAC CT; CLINICAL ASSESSMENTS; CT IMAGING; MANUAL ALIGNMENT;

ALIGNMENT; POSITRON ANNIHILATION SPECTROSCOPY;

POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 67649212360     PISSN: 10957863     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/NSSMIC.2008.4774500     Document Type: Conference Paper

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