Computerized method for nonrigid MR-to-PET breast-image registration

Computers in Biology and Medicine

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 37-53

  Unlu, M Z ^a   Krol, A ^b   Magri, A ^c   Mandel, J A ^d   Lee, W ^b   Baum, K G ^e   Lipson, E D ^c   Coman, I L ^b   Feiglin, D H ^b  

^a IZMIR INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Turkey)

^b State University of New York Upstate Medical University: College of Medicine   (United States)

^c SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d Syracuse University   (United States)

^e ROCHESTER INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

FEM based soft tissue multimodality nonrigid image registration; MR to PET nonrigid breast image registration

Indexed keywords

BREAST IMAGES; BREAST TISSUES; CLINICAL PRACTICES; COMPUTERIZED METHODS; DISPLACEMENT VECTORS; FIDUCIAL SKIN MARKERS; LOCAL MINIMUMS; LOW-GAMMA; MOLECULAR IMAGES; MULTI-MODALITY; NON-RIGID DEFORMATION; NONRIGID IMAGE REGISTRATION; NONRIGID REGISTRATION; PET IMAGES; PET SCAN; PIECE-WISE; QUALITY IMAGE; REGISTRATION PROCESS; SIMILARITY MEASURE; SOFT TISSUE; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; SURFACE MATCHING; TARGET REGISTRATION ERRORS; VOXEL INTENSITIES;

BIOMECHANICS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE ATTENUATION; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; GAMMA RAYS; MESH GENERATION; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; TISSUE;

IMAGE REGISTRATION;

FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; BODY POSTURE; BREAST BIOPSY; BREAST CANCER; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; GAMMA RADIATION; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; MAMMOGRAPHY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; PATIENT POSITIONING; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION ATTENUATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHMS; BREAST; FEMALE; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MIDDLE AGED; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 74149086948     PISSN: 00104825     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compbiomed.2009.10.010     Document Type: Article

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