Medical Image Analysis
Volume 16, Issue 3 , Pages 662-674 , April 2012

Biomechanically constrained groupwise ultrasound to CT registration of the lumbar spine

  • Sean Gill

      Affiliations

    • Queen’s University, Kingston, ON, Canada
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  • Purang Abolmaesumi

      Affiliations

    • Queen’s University, Kingston, ON, Canada
    • University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
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  • Gabor Fichtinger

      Affiliations

    • Queen’s University, Kingston, ON, Canada
  • ,
  • Jonathan Boisvert

      Affiliations

    • Institute for Information Technology, National Research Council Canada, Ottawa, ON, Canada
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  • David Pichora

      Affiliations

    • Kingston General Hospital, Kingston, ON, Canada
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  • Dan Borshneck

      Affiliations

    • Kingston General Hospital, Kingston, ON, Canada
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  • Parvin Mousavi

      Affiliations

    • Queen’s University, Kingston, ON, Canada
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author.

Received 11 September 2009 ,Revised 28 February 2010 ,Accepted 11 July 2010.

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doi: 10.1016/j.media.2010.07.008

Medical Image Analysis
Volume 16, Issue 3 , Pages 662-674 , April 2012