Biomedical Engineering Reference
In-Depth Information
• Scatter correction
• Correction for limited resolution
• Improving reconstruction accuracy in emission tomography
• Coregistration of serial functional studies
• Transformation to standard space for comparison with normal studies
•
Transformation to standard space for comparison with data from
other modalities (multiparametric functional imaging)
•
Conformal radiotherapy treatment planning
•
Functionally guided biopsy
There will, no doubt, be many more applications as the devices and algo-
rithms become more widely available and researchers and clinicians
develop innovative approaches to diagnosing and treating human disease.
The future will see developments in the use of multiparametric mapping
combining functional and structural data from a wide variety of measuring
systems. Nuclear medicine can only benefit from such evolving integration,
in which image registration plays a central role.
Acknowledgment
I am grateful to my colleague Richard Lewis for providing a number of the
examples shown in this chapter, and for proofreading the drafts.
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