Academic Radiology
Volume 17, Issue 1 , Pages 67-74 , January 2010

Automatic Identification of the Reference System Based on the Fourth Ventricular Landmarks in T1-weighted MR Images

  • Yili Fu, PhD

      Affiliations

    • State Key Laboratory of Robotics and System, Room 417, Building 2E, Science Park, Harbin Institute of Technology, No 2 Yikuang Street, Nangang District, Harbin, Heilongjiang, China
    • Bio-X Center, Room 417, Building 2E, Science Park, Harbin Institute of Technology, No 2 Yikuang Street, Nangang District, Harbin, Heilongjiang, China
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  • Wenpeng Gao, MD

      Affiliations

    • State Key Laboratory of Robotics and System, Room 417, Building 2E, Science Park, Harbin Institute of Technology, No 2 Yikuang Street, Nangang District, Harbin, Heilongjiang, China
    • Bio-X Center, Room 417, Building 2E, Science Park, Harbin Institute of Technology, No 2 Yikuang Street, Nangang District, Harbin, Heilongjiang, China
    • Corresponding Author InformationAddress correspondence to: W.G.
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  • Xiaoguang Chen, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Neurosurgery, First Affiliated Hospital of Harbin Medical University, Harbin, China
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  • Minwei Zhu, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Neurosurgery, First Affiliated Hospital of Harbin Medical University, Harbin, China
    • ,
  • Weigao Shen, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Anatomy, College of Basic Medicine of Beihua University, Jilin, China
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  • Shuguo Wang, PhD

      Affiliations

    • State Key Laboratory of Robotics and System, Room 417, Building 2E, Science Park, Harbin Institute of Technology, No 2 Yikuang Street, Nangang District, Harbin, Heilongjiang, China

Received 28 April 2009 ,Accepted 13 July 2009.

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 This work was supported by Self-Planned Task (SKLRS200802A01) of State Key Laboratory of Robotics and System (Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China) and was partly supported by the Task (2007–241) of Heilongjiang Health Department, Task (11541204) of Heilongjiang Education Department, and National Science Foundation of China (60575016).

PII: S1076-6332(09)00411-5

doi: 10.1016/j.acra.2009.07.013

Academic Radiology
Volume 17, Issue 1 , Pages 67-74 , January 2010

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