Assessment of Diffuse Coronary Artery Disease by Quantitative Analysis of Coronary Morphology Based upon 3-D Reconstruction from Biplane Angiograms

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 1995, Pages 230-241

  Wahle, Andreas ^a   Wellnhofer, Ernst ^a   Mugaragu, Ignace ^a   Sauer, Hans U ^a   Oswald, Helmut ^a   Fleck, Eckart ^a  

^a FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARDIOVASCULAR DIAGNOSIS; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY MORPHOLOGY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SURGICAL VERIFICATION; THERAPY PLANNING;

ALGORITHMS; ANGIOGRAPHY; BLOOD VESSELS; CALCULATIONS; ERRORS; GEOMETRY; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATHEMATICAL MORPHOLOGY; THREE DIMENSIONAL; TREES (MATHEMATICS);

MEDICAL IMAGING;

EID: 0029327157     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: 1558254X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/42.387704     Document Type: Article

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