Fusion of different modalities of imaging the fist
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[en] The standard radiographical pictures are not able always to bring out the fracture of one of the fist bones. In an early study it was shown that 40% of patients presenting a suspicion of fracture and in which the radio- image was normal, have had a fracture confirmed with quantification by MRI and scintigraphy. The last one does not allow to specify the localization and consequently we developed a code to fusion entirely automatically the radiologic image and the scintigraphic image using no external marker. The code has been installed on a PC and uses the Matlab environment. Starting from the histogram processing the contours are individualized on the interpolated radio- and scinti-images. For matching there are 3 freedom degrees: one of rotation and 2 of translation (in x and y axes). The internal axes of the forearm was chosen to effect the rotation and translation. The forehand thickness, identical for each modality, allows to match properly the images. We have obtained an anatomic image on which the contour and the hyper-fixating zones of the scintigraphy are added. On a set of 100 examinations we observed 38 fractures while the difference between a fracture of the scaphoid and of another fist bone is confirmed in 93% of cases
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Fusion d'images de diverses modalites du poignet
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36. French Language Colloquium on Nuclear Medicine; 36. Colloque de Medecine Nucleaire de Langue Francaise; Rennes-Saint-Malo (France); 1-3 Oct 1997; Session Osteoarticulaire. Communications affichees (72). Short communication
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Medecine Nucleaire. Imagerie Fonctionnelle et Metabolique; ISSN 0928-1258; ; v. 21(6); p. 366
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