Virtual navigator real-time ultrasound fusion imaging with positron emission tomography for liver interventions

Proceedings of the Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBS

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 1406-1409

  Di Mauro, Enzo ^a   Solbiati, Marco ^b   De Beni, Stefano ^c   Forzoni, Leonardo ^c   D'Onofrio, Sara ^c   Solbiati, Luigi ^a  

^a General Hospital of Busto Arsizio   (Italy)

^b Polytechnic   (Italy)

^c Esaote   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL APPLICATION; CLINICAL PRACTICES; FUSION IMAGING; INTERVENTIONAL; MULTI-MODALITY REGISTRATION; PET SCANNER; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY (PET); ULTRASOUND IMAGING;

MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; ULTRASONICS;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

AGED; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTER INTERFACE; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; LIVER; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIMODAL IMAGING; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PROCEDURES; SCINTISCANNING; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LIVER; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIMODAL IMAGING; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 84886521563     PISSN: 1557170X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/EMBC.2013.6609773     Document Type: Conference Paper

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