Restoring functional PET Images using Anatomical MR Images
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In this paper we present a Bayesian method to enhance functional 3D PET images using apriori knowledge about the brain anatomy obtained from 3D MR images. We use a Markov Random Field as a prior model, which have the possibility of incorporating this information. We show both a small test example as well as a true PET-MR result, and further more show how to obtain the desired information from the MR images.
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تاریخ انتشار 1997