Automated alignment of MRI brain scan by anatomic landmarks

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 7259, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Zhang, Li ^a   Xu, Qing ^b   Chen, Chong ^c   Novak, Carol L ^a  

^a SIEMENS CORPORATE RESEARCH   (United States)

^b VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c University of Illinois at Chicago   (United States)

Author keywords

Anatomy consistent MR acquisition; Segmentation

Indexed keywords

BRAIN HEMISPHERES; BRAIN SCAN; CLINICAL USE; DATA SETS; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGES; HIGH RESOLUTION; MID-SAGITTAL PLANES;

ALIGNMENT; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGING SYSTEMS; MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

EID: 71649085833     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.812236     Document Type: Conference Paper

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