Automated analysis of small animal PET studies through deformable registration to an atlas

European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging

Volumn 39, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 1807-1820

  Gutierrez, Daniel F ^a   Zaidi, Habib ^a,b,c  

^a GENEVA UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Atlas; Deformable registration; PET CT; Quantification; Small animals

Indexed keywords

BISPECIFIC ANTIBODY; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18; GALLIUM 68; SODIUM FLUORIDE F 18;

ACCURACY; ALGORITHM; ANATOMICAL CONCEPTS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUTOANALYSIS; BLADDER; BRAIN; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; COMPUTER ASSISTED EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIGITAL IMAGING; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; HEART; IMAGE QUALITY; KIDNEY; LUNG; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SKELETON; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ANIMALS; ATLASES AS TOPIC; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MICE; MODELS, ANATOMIC; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY AND COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 84868207527     PISSN: 16197070     EISSN: 16197089     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00259-012-2188-7     Document Type: Article

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