Hierarchical CT to Ultrasound Registration of the Lumbar Spine: A Comparison with Other Registration Methods

Annals of Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 44, Issue 10, 2016, Pages 2887-2900

  Koo, Terry K ^a   Kwok, Wingchi Edmund ^b,c  

^a NEW YORK CHIROPRACTIC COLLEGE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

^c Rochester Center for Brain Imaging   (United States)

Author keywords

Computed tomography; Image registration; Lumbar vertebra; Motion segment; Ultrasound

Indexed keywords

BONE; IMAGE REGISTRATION; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; IONIZING RADIATION; JOINTS (ANATOMY); TOMOGRAPHY; ULTRASONICS;

CLINICAL SETTINGS; LUMBAR VERTEBRA; MEASUREMENT TECHNIQUES; MOTION SEGMENTS; REALISTIC CONDITIONS; REGISTRATION METHODS; TARGET REGISTRATION ERRORS; THREE-DIMENSIONAL (3D) MEASUREMENTS;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BONE TISSUE; CADAVER; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECHOGRAPHY; FIDUCIAL MARKER; GOLD STANDARD; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGE REGISTRATION; IMAGING AND DISPLAY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; IONIZATION CHAMBER; IONIZING RADIATION; LUMBAR SPINE; LUMBAR VERTEBRA; MEASUREMENT ACCURACY; MEASUREMENT ERROR; MEASUREMENT REPEATABILITY; NONHUMAN; PIG; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REAL TIME ULTRASOUND SCANNER; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; ULTRASOUND TRANSDUCER; VALIDATION PROCESS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; PROCEDURES; X-RAY COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY;

HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 84961615749     PISSN: 00906964     EISSN: 15739686     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10439-016-1599-1     Document Type: Article

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