Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging
Volume 147, Issue 1 , Pages 79-89 , 30 June 2006

An automated method for the extraction of regional data from PET images

  • Pablo Rusjan

      Affiliations

    • PET Centre, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, 250 College Street, Toronto, ON M5T 1R8, Canada
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +1 416 535 8501x4215; fax: +1 416 260 4164.
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  • David Mamo

      Affiliations

    • PET Centre, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, 250 College Street, Toronto, ON M5T 1R8, Canada
    • Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto, Canada
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  • Nathalie Ginovart

      Affiliations

    • PET Centre, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, 250 College Street, Toronto, ON M5T 1R8, Canada
    • Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto, Canada
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  • Douglas Hussey

      Affiliations

    • PET Centre, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, 250 College Street, Toronto, ON M5T 1R8, Canada
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  • Irina Vitcu

      Affiliations

    • PET Centre, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, 250 College Street, Toronto, ON M5T 1R8, Canada
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  • Fumihiko Yasuno

      Affiliations

    • Brain Imaging Project, National Institute of Radiological Science, Chiba, Japan
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  • Suhara Tetsuya

      Affiliations

    • Brain Imaging Project, National Institute of Radiological Science, Chiba, Japan
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  • Sylvain Houle

      Affiliations

    • PET Centre, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, 250 College Street, Toronto, ON M5T 1R8, Canada
    • Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto, Canada
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  • Shitij Kapur

      Affiliations

    • PET Centre, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, 250 College Street, Toronto, ON M5T 1R8, Canada
    • Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto, Canada

Received 19 September 2005 ,Revised 19 January 2006 ,Accepted 20 January 2006.

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PII: S0925-4927(06)00017-5

doi: 10.1016/j.pscychresns.2006.01.011

Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging
Volume 147, Issue 1 , Pages 79-89 , 30 June 2006