| Literature DB >> 24825924 |
Tracy L Faber1, Cesar A Santana1, Marina Piccinelli2, Jonathon A Nye1, John R Votaw1, Ernest V Garcia1, Eldad Haber3.
Abstract
Explicit fusion of perfusion data from Positron Emission Tomography (PET) or Single Photon Emission Computed Tomography (SPECT) with coronary artery anatomy from Computed Tomographic Coronary Angiography (CTA) has been shown to improve the diagnostic yield for coronary artery disease (CAD) compared to either modality alone. However, most clinically available methods were developed for multimodal scanners or require interactive alignment prior to display and analysis. A new approach was developed to register the two distributions obtained either from a single multimodal imager or from separate scanners, and a preliminary validation was undertaken to compare the automatic alignment to interactive alignment by two experts.Entities:
Keywords: Computer-aided diagnosis; image registration; nuclear medicine
Year: 2011 PMID: 24825924 PMCID: PMC4017027 DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2011.2163526
Source DB: PubMed Journal: IEEE Trans Nucl Sci ISSN: 0018-9499 Impact factor: 1.679