Title :
Multimodality cardiac imaging MRI-nuclear medicine
Author :
Najib, Soussi ; Louis, Barat Jean
Author_Institution :
Div. of Nucl. Med., Bordeaux Univ. Hosp., Pessac, France
fDate :
31 Oct-3 Nov 1996
Abstract :
The different aspects of a protocol of MRI and nuclear medicine multimodality imaging in cardiology are presented. The aim of this work is to allow a better confrontation of these complementary informations for enhancing the clinical diagnosis. This work uses an external marking system, which is constituted by a stereotactic device. The plastic tubes in this device are filled with radioactive solution or CuSO4. Images alignment is achieved automatically with the different steps we describe. Validation of this protocol on phantom leads to 2 mm and 2° precision in the alignment process
Keywords :
biomedical NMR; cardiology; image enhancement; image matching; image registration; medical image processing; single photon emission computed tomography; CuSO4 filled; MRI; SPECT; automatic images alignment; convolution; enhanced clinical diagnosis; external marking system; image merging; multimodality cardiac imaging; multimodality protocol; nuclear medicine; phantom verification; plastic tubes; radioactive solution filled; stereotactic device; Biomedical imaging; Cardiology; Imaging phantoms; Magnetic resonance imaging; Medical diagnostic imaging; Merging; Nuclear medicine; Plastics; Protocols; Testing;
Conference_Titel :
Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 1996. Bridging Disciplines for Biomedicine. Proceedings of the 18th Annual International Conference of the IEEE
Conference_Location :
Amsterdam
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-3811-1
DOI :
10.1109/IEMBS.1996.646536
