Registration of abdominal CT and SPECT images using compton scatter data

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 1230, Issue , 1997, Pages 232-244

  Sjögreen, Katarina ^a   Ljungberg, Michael ^a   Erlandsson, Kjell ^a   Floreby, Lars ^b   Strand, Sven Erik ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b Department of Medical Radiation Physics   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BINARY IMAGES; COMPTON SCATTERING; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS; MEDICAL IMAGING; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PHANTOMS; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS;

ACTIVITY DISTRIBUTION; ANTHROPOMORPHIC PHANTOMS; CROSS CORRELATIONS; DEFORMABLE CONTOURS; PHANTOM STUDIES; POSITIONING DEVICES; POSITIONING INFORMATION; REGISTRATION ACCURACY;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 84956867120     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/3-540-63046-5_18     Document Type: Conference Paper

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