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-Image Registration Toolkit (IRTK)
-
-Version 2.0
-
-Disclaimer:
-
-This software has been developed for research purposes only, and hence should not be 
-used as a diagnostic tool. In no event shall the authors or distributors be liable to 
-any direct, indirect, special, incidental, or consequential damages arising of the use 
-of this software, its documentation, or any derivatives thereof, even if the authors 
-have been advised of the possibility of such damage.
-
-Authors:
-
-The image registration software itself has been written by
-
-Daniel Rueckert
-
-Visual Information Processing Group
-Department of Computing
-Imperial College London
-London SW7 2BZ, United Kingdom
-
-The image processing library used by the registration software has been written by
-
-Daniel Rueckert
-Julia Schnabel
-
-See the COPYRIGHT file in this directory for more information on the copyright and 
-license agreement for the software.
-
-The non-rigid registration algorithms implemented in the software are described by 
-the following publications:
-
-J. A. Schnabel, D. Rueckert, M. Quist, J. M. Blackall, A. D. Castellano Smith, 
-T. Hartkens, G. P. Penney, W. A. Hall, H. Liu, C. L. Truwit, F. A. Gerritsen, 
-D. L. G. Hill, and D. J. Hawkes. A generic framework for non-rigid registration 
-based on non-uniform multi-level free-form deformations. In Fourth Int. Conf. on 
-Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention (MICCAI '01), pages 
-573-581, Utrecht, NL, October 2001
-
-D. Rueckert, L. I. Sonoda, C. Hayes, D. L. G. Hill, M. O. Leach, and D. J. Hawkes. 
-Non-rigid registration using free-form deformations: Application to breast MR 
-images. IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, 18(8):712-721, 1999.
-
-E. R. E. Denton, L. I. Sonoda, D. Rueckert, S. C. Rankin, C. Hayes, M. Leach, D. 
-L. G. Hill, and D. J. Hawkes. Comparison and evaluation of rigid and non-rigid 
-registration of breast MR images. Journal of Computer Assisted Tomography, 
-23:800-805, 1999.
-
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