Automated alignment and sizing of myocardial stress and rest scans to three-dimensional normal templates using an image registration algorithm.

PJ Slomka, GA Hurwitz, J Stephenson… - Journal of nuclear …, 1995 - europepmc.org
Methods Stress and rest reference templates were built using a hybrid three-dimensional
image registration scheme based on principal-axes and simplex-minimization techniques …

Automatic registration and alignment on a template of cardiac stress and rest reoriented SPECT images

J Declerck, J Feldmar, ML Goris… - IEEE transactions on …, 1997 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) imaging with/sup 201/Tl or/sup
99m/Tc agent is used to assess the location or the extent of myocardial infarction or …

Automatic registration and alignment on a template of cardiac stress and rest SPECT images

J Declerck, J Feldmar, F Betting… - Proceedings of the …, 1996 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) imaging is used to assess the
location or the extent of myocardial infarction or ischemia. A method is proposed to decrease …

Spatial and temporal registration of cardiac SPECT and MR images: methods and evaluation.

TL Faber, RW McColl, RM Opperman, JR Corbett… - Radiology, 1991 - pubs.rsna.org
Image registration may assist in the integration of information from multiple sources by
allowing direct point-for-point comparisons of studies. To determine the usefulness of such a …

Automatic quantification of myocardial perfusion stress–rest change: a new measure of ischemia

PJ Slomka, H Nishina, DS Berman… - Journal of Nuclear …, 2004 - Soc Nuclear Med
In myocardial perfusion SPECT (MPS), ischemia is typically quantified as the difference
between stress and rest defect sizes obtained by separate comparisons with stress and rest …

[PDF][PDF] Automatic reorientation of three-dimensional, transaxial myocardial perfusion SPECT images

G Germano, PB Kavanagh, HT Su… - Journal of Nuclear …, 1995 - Soc Nuclear Med
WedevelOpedacompletelyautomatictechniq… sa@ dalimages into short-aas (oblique)
myocard@ perfusion SPECTimages. Methods: The algorithmstarts by isolating (segmenting) …

Correlation of SPECT and PET cardiac images by a surface matching registration technique

MC Gilardi, G Rizzo, A Savi, C Landoni… - … Medical Imaging and …, 1998 - Elsevier
Complementary information provided by Single Photon and Positron Emission Tomography
(SPECT and PET) in nuclear cardiology allows a better comprehension of the …

Automated quality control for segmentation of myocardial perfusion SPECT

Y Xu, P Kavanagh, M Fish, J Gerlach… - Journal of Nuclear …, 2009 - Soc Nuclear Med
Left ventricular (LV) segmentation, including accurate assignment of LV contours, is
essential for the quantitative assessment of myocardial perfusion SPECT (MPS). Two major …

Model-based quantification of myocardial perfusion images from SPECT.

J Nuyts, L Mortelmans, P Suetens… - Journal of Nuclear …, 1989 - europepmc.org
A system for quantitative analysis of myocardial perfusion tomograms is proposed. The
system starts with an automated delineation of the total left ventricle, including possible …

[PDF][PDF] Three-dimensional registration of cardiac positron emission tomography attenuation scans

SL Bacharach, MA Douglas, RE Carson… - Journal of nuclear …, 1993 - Soc Nuclear Med
METHODS Scan data were acquired on a Positron Corp. PC6. 5 whole body scanner. This
machine produces 21 slices, each with 12.5-mm FWHM axial resolution. The 21 slices are …