AUTHOR=Birkfellner Wolfgang , Figl Michael , Furtado Hugo , Renner Andreas , Hatamikia Sepideh , Hummel Johann TITLE=Multi-Modality Imaging: A Software Fusion and Image-Guided Therapy Perspective JOURNAL=Frontiers in Physics VOLUME=6 YEAR=2018 URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/physics/articles/10.3389/fphy.2018.00066 DOI=10.3389/fphy.2018.00066 ISSN=2296-424X ABSTRACT=

With the introduction of computers in medical imaging, which were popularized with the presentation of Hounsfield's ground-breaking work in 1971, numerical image reconstruction and analysis of medical images became a vital part of medical imaging research. While mathematical aspects of reconstruction dominated research in the beginning, a growing body of literature attests to the progress made over the past 30 years in image fusion. This article describes the historical development of non-deformable software-based image co-registration and it's role in the context of hybrid imaging and provides an outlook on future developments.