Accurate coregistration between ultra-high-resolution micro-SPECT and circular cone-beam micro-CT scanners

International Journal of Biomedical Imaging

Volumn 2010, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Ji, Changguo ^a,b   Van Der Have, Frans ^a,c,d   Gratama Van Andel, Hugo ^d   Ramakers, Ruud ^a   Beekman, Freek ^a,c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^b PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c MILabs BV   (Netherlands)

^d DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL IMAGES; CALIBRATION PHANTOM; CIRCULAR CONES; CONE-BEAM CT; COREGISTERED; COREGISTRATION; COREGISTRATION ERROR; CT SCAN; CT VOLUME; FIELD OF VIEWS; IMAGE CO-REGISTRATION; MATCHING ALGORITHM; MICRO SPECT; SPATIAL TRANSFORMATION; ULTRA-HIGH; Z-DIRECTIONS;

ANIMALS; ERRORS; IMAGE RESOLUTION; LINEAR TRANSFORMATIONS;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 78249238210     PISSN: 16874188     EISSN: 16874196     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1155/2010/654506     Document Type: Article

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