New methods for arterial diameter measurement from B-mode images

Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 25-34

  Stadler, Robert W ^a,b   Karl, W C ^b,c   Lees, R S ^a,b  

^a Boston Heart Foundation   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Arterial compliance; Atherosclerosis; Computer assisted image processing; Dilation; Endothelial derived relaxing factor; Ultrasound

Indexed keywords

BLOOD VESSELS; COMPUTER AIDED ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; MEDICAL COMPUTING; MEDICAL IMAGING; NONINVASIVE MEDICAL PROCEDURES; PHYSIOLOGICAL MODELS; ULTRASONIC MEASUREMENT;

ARTERIAL COMPLIANCE; ARTERIAL DIAMETER MEASUREMENT; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; DILATION; ENDOTHELIAL DERIVED RELAXING FACTOR;

ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

ALGORITHM; ARTERY COMPLIANCE; ARTERY CONSTRICTION; ARTERY DIAMETER; ARTERY DILATATION; ARTICLE; B SCAN; BRACHIAL ARTERY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE DISPLAY; IMAGE PROCESSING; MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0030026742     PISSN: 03015629     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0301-5629(95)02017-9     Document Type: Article

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