[Insight-users] Registering PET and MR images

[John Drozd]

Thank you, Luis.

Thanks,
john

On Sun, Oct 25, 2009 at 6:20 PM, Luis Ibanez <luis.ibanez at kitware.com>wrote:

> Hi John,
>
> Yes, you will need to use a multi-modality metric.
>
> Note as well, that in order to register PET and MRI
> images, you may want to focus on the range of PET
> intensities that reveal anatomical features that are
> also visible in the MRI scan.
>
> That is, usually you want to use, mostly, the low
> intensity levels of the PET image. One way of
> achieving this is to pass the PET image through
> a filter that applies an intensity transformation.
>
> You could do this with any of the following:
>
>  a) SigmoidImageFilter
>  b) IntensityWindowingImageFilter
>
>
> Then you use the converted image as the
> input for the image registration process
> along with the MRI image.
>
>
> Regards,
>
>
>       Luis
>
>
> -------------------------------------------------------
> On Sun, Oct 25, 2009 at 5:14 AM, John Drozd <john.drozd at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > What would be the best approach to register PET and MR images using ITK?
> > My feeling is that I would use a multi-modal registration algorithm.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > john
> >
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John Drozd
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