Brain SPECT imaging within the Talairach reference system: a simple registration algorithm

Jean Meunier; Bernard Imbert; Christian Janicki; Jean-Paul Soucy

doi:10.1117/12.310853

24 June 1998 Brain SPECT imaging within the Talairach reference system: a simple registration algorithm

Jean Meunier, Bernard Imbert, Christian Janicki, Jean-Paul Soucy

Proceedings Volume 3338, Medical Imaging 1998: Image Processing; (1998) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.310853
Event: Medical Imaging '98, 1998, San Diego, CA, United States

Abstract

An important goal to achieve in order to improve the clinical usefulness of regional cerebral blood flow (rCBF) SPECT studies is to register each brain to a standard anatomical atlas. For this purpose, we propose a simple three steps method. First the mid-sagittal plane is computed based on the left-right symmetry of the brain. Then the AC- PC line (main axis of the Talairach & Tournoux reference system) is obtained from the positions of four landmarks in the mid-sagittal plane. Finally, three linear scaling parameters are determined to adjust the size of the subject brain within the Talairach & Tournoux Atlas. The method was successfully validated with a set of 64 X 64 X 64 SPECT Monte-Carlo simulations of the brain.

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Jean Meunier, Bernard Imbert, Christian Janicki, and Jean-Paul Soucy "Brain SPECT imaging within the Talairach reference system: a simple registration algorithm", Proc. SPIE 3338, Medical Imaging 1998: Image Processing, (24 June 1998); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.310853

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