Hello,
I have two CT Datasets of a 3D Printed Skull Phantom. One CT Scan is from a clinical CT scanner and the second scan is from an industrial CT scanner. The scan from the clinical CT has Hounsfield values between -1024 and 3072. The scan from the industrial scanner has grey values between 8087 - 12539.Both scans have a different size. The scan of the clinical scanner has a size of 512x512x606 and the industrial scan has a size of 512x512x715.
I attached two screenshots from a axial slice so that you can see the different with the grey values. Now i want to register these two scans. I tried it with the General Registration (Elastix) but it doesn’t work. I dont’t get a registration of both skull bones. But when i used two different scans from a clinical CT it worked well. The problem is that on the industrial ct artifacts are visible. Has somebody an idea how i can get a proper registration results? I thought that maybe the artifacfts are a problem for the registration?
I would be really happy about some help
Before you launch an automatic intensity-based image registration, you must approximately align the scans using manual or semi-automatic methods. See more information here: Registration — 3D Slicer documentation.
Hello Andras,
Thank you so much. I used now the landmark registration before i used the elastix.
Here you can see the result of the landmark registration.
Then i applied the elastix registration.
But i still get a strange result (See the Photo belov)
Do you have any idea why i get this result?
And i also tried to save the result of the landmark registration. But when i exported the transformated images as a dicom they are not transformed. They have the same orientation as before. Maybe you have an idea how i can save the transformed images as a dicom?
You may need to be harden the transform on the image before exporting it to DICOM.
From this much information it is hard to tell how to improve the registration. Wrong scale, too homogeneous images, too many b-spline control points, Elastix transform not read correctly (try if you get better result if you generate transformed moving image instead of getting an output transform and applying it to the moving image), etc. You could post a lot more screenshots, registration results you get by varying registration parameters, display the computed transform using Transforms module’s display section, but it would be much easier if you could just share an example pair of 3D images.
Unfortunately at the moment i don’t know what i can do better in the elastix registration to receive better results. or is there another registration module which can solve my problem? sorry for all the questions but i am new in image registration.
I also tried the BRAINS General registration.
When i used the settings Affine and useGeometryAlign and Affine and useCenterofHeadAlign it is cut of at the top and bottom.
