Fusion of images obtained from EIT and MRI

Author

Davidson, Jennifer L. ; Little, R.A. ; Wright, Paul ; Naish, J. ; Kikinis, Ron ; Parker, Geoff J. M. ; McCann, Hugh

Author_Institution

Sch. of Electr. & Electron. Eng., Univ. of Manchester, Manchester, UK

Volume

48

Issue

11

fYear

2012

Firstpage

617

Lastpage

618

Abstract

A novel and effective methodology of combining images obtained by both electrical impedance tomography (EIT) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) data is described. Co-registered and fused image results for an example laboratory phantom based on the polysaccharide gel TX151 are presented. Bespoke software was used to convert an EIT dataset into a form consistent with 3D-Slicer, a powerful software package used for visualisation and image analysis. The data fusion provides a highly effective method of directly comparing EIT images, which typically have good temporal resolution and relatively poor spatial resolution, with those obtained with MRI, which has relatively poor temporal resolution but excellent spatial resolution.

Keywords

biomedical MRI; computerised tomography; image registration; medical image processing; sensor fusion; 3D-Slicer; Bespoke software; EIT; MRI; data fusion; electrical impedance tomography; image fusion; image registration; laboratory phantom; magnetic resonance imaging; polysaccharide gel TX151;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Electronics Letters

Publisher

iet

ISSN

0013-5194

Type

jour

DOI

10.1049/el.2012.0327

Filename

6204263