Automated Image Registration of PET/CT Image Data
 
 
Mercury Computer Systems, Inc.
Patients with suspected cancerous lesions often undergo multiple examinations using several modalities to improve the interpretation of the resulting clinical images. Researchers at the University of Maryland School of Medicine have developed a novel methodology for the registration and fusion of PET and CT scans to facilitate accurate diagnoses. This fully automated 3D elastic image registration technique can accurately align whole-body PET and CT images acquired on standalone scanners and combined PET/CT scanners