Image fusion between ultrasonography and CT, MRI or PET/CT for image guidance and intervention - a theoretical and clinical study

Danish Medical Bulletin

Volumn 57, Issue 9, 2010, Pages

  Ewertsen, Caroline ^a  

^a Rigshospitalet   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; BIOPSY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LIVER INJURY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATIENT ASSESSMENT; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; AGED; ALGORITHM; ANUS TUMOR; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; ENDOSCOPIC ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE QUALITY; LIVER TUMOR; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NEEDLE BIOPSY; REPRODUCIBILITY;

AGED; ALGORITHMS; ANUS NEOPLASMS; BIOPSY, NEEDLE; ENDOSONOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 77957660554     PISSN: 16039629     EISSN: 16039629     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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