Computed Tomographic Imaging of the Coronary Arterial Tree—Use of Local Tomography

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 1990, Pages 1-4

  Spyra, Wolfgang J T ^a   Faridani, Adel ^b   Smith, Kennan T ^c   Ritman, Erik L ^a  

^a MAYO CLINIC COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^c OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS--BLOOD VESSELS; IMAGE PROCESSING--RECONSTRUCTION; RADIOGRAPHY--X-RAY;

CORONARY ARTERIAL TREE; LOCAL IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION;

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING;

EID: 0025399752     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: 1558254X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/42.52977     Document Type: Article

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