Assessment of brain surface extraction from PET images using monte carlo simulations

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 51, Issue 5 II, 2004, Pages 2641-2648

  Tohka, Jussi ^a   Kivimäki, Anu ^a   Reilhac, Anthonin ^b   Mykkänen, Jouni ^a   Ruotsalainen, Ulla ^a  

^a TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

AIR; Deformable model; Magnetic resonance (MR); Positron emission tomography (PET); Registration; Segmentation

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BRAIN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

AIR DEFORMABLE MODEL; ERROR STEMMING; INTERNAL ENERGY; REGISTRATION;

IMAGE ANALYSIS;

EID: 8344287559     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2004.834825     Document Type: Article

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