Registration of myocardial PET and SPECT for viability assessment using mutual information

Medical Physics

Volumn 37, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 2414-2424

  Marinelli, Martina ^a,b   Martinez Möller, Axel ^a   Jensen, Brian ^a   Positano, Vincenzo ^c   Weismüller, Susanne ^a   Navab, Nassir ^a   Landini, Luigi ^d   Schwaiger, Markus ^a   Nekolla, Stephan G ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b SCUOLA SUPERIORE SANT ANNA   (Italy)

^c FONDAZIONE TOSCANA GABRIELE MONASTERIO   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Functional images; Mutual information; Myocardial viability; Registration

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER HARDWARE; HEART; IMAGE RESOLUTION; PATIENT MONITORING;

AUTOMATIC REGISTRATION; FUNCTIONAL IMAGES; MUTUAL INFORMATIONS; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; MYOCARDIAL VIABILITY; REGISTRATION; ROTATIONAL COMPONENT; TARGET REGISTRATION ERRORS;

DATA INTEGRATION;

MARTES;

EID: 77953496586     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3395554     Document Type: Article

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