1. Setting up A Fused MRI-PET/SPECT
Display
When viewing nuclear medicine data
overlaid
onto MRI anatomy, using the full range of values in the two scans
often
does not always provide a useful display of the structures of interest
from the two images, for example, the following image pair displayed
with default grey and green colour tables:
The first step is to zoom in to make more use of the rview windows (using the insert key!)
Then it is common to manually
refine the
range of SPECT or PET values displayed to maximise the contrast of
fused structures of interest. The following
pages give some pointers on the approach to take...