Registration of pet and MR images of human brain using normalized cross correlation algorithm and spatial transformation techniques

Journal of Theoretical and Applied Information Technology

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 1-8

  Balasubramanian, B ^a   Porkumaran, K ^b  

^a SRI RAMAKRISHNA ENGINEERING COLLEGE   (India)

^b ANNA UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Computed Tomography (CT); Magnetic Resonance(MR); Normalized Cross Correlation (NCC); Positron Emission Tomography (PET)

Indexed keywords

EID: 78650207374     PISSN: 19928645     EISSN: 18173195     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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