Evaluation of whole-body mr to ct deformable image registration

Journal of Applied Clinical Medical Physics

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 238-253

  Akbarzadeh, A ^a,b,c   Gutierrez, D ^c   Baskin, A ^c   Ay, M R ^a,b,c,d   Ahmadian, A ^a,b,c   Riahi Alam, N ^a,c   Lovblad K O ^c,d   Zaidi, H ^c,e,f  

^a TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^c GENEVA UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS   (Switzerland)

^d TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^e UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^f UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Attenuationcorrection; Deformable model; Image registration; PET CT; PET MRI

Indexed keywords

EID: 84880685698     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15269914     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1120/jacmp.v14i4.4163     Document Type: Article

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