Hardware and software approaches to multi-modality imaging

Current Medical Imaging Reviews

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 169-174

  Klausen, Thomas L ^a   Andersen, Flemming ^a   Kemp, Brad ^b  

^a Rigshospitalet   (Denmark)

^b MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

ET CT; Hybrid scanner; Multi modality; PET MRI; SPECT CT

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATION; IMAGE FUSION; ITERATIVE METHODS; NUCLEAR MEDICINE; PARTICLE BEAMS; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY;

ET/COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE; HYBRID SCANNERS; MULTI-MODALITY; MULTI-MODALITY IMAGING; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY/MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY IMAGES; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY/COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; SOFTWARE APPROACH; STRUCTURAL INFORMATION;

MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING;

PROTON; RADIOISOTOPE;

ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; BONE TISSUE; BRAIN SCINTISCANNING; BREATHING PATTERN; COMPUTER ASSISTED EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CORTICAL BONE; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; ELECTRON; ENTROPY; IMAGE QUALITY; NEUROIMAGING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEAR MEDICINE; PATIENT POSITIONING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; SOFT TISSUE; X RAY;

EID: 79961068814     PISSN: 15734056     EISSN: 18756506     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2174/157340511796411195     Document Type: Article

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