Fusion Imaging - Application In Maxillofacial Imaging

"Fusion Imaging is the process of registering and combining multiple images from single or multiple imaging modalities to improve the imaging quality and reduce randomness and redundancy to increase the clinical applicability of medical images for diagnosis and assessment of medical problems". It was designed to overcome the disadvantages of anatomic and functional imaging modalities and attempts to provide inputs that improve the image quality by combining the advantages of anatomic and functional imaging modalities for improvising treatment plans.The fusion imaging information is ultimate and it allows not an only better understanding of various physiological and disease process but also helps in monitoring & predicting the course of the treatment and predicting the prognosis.