Importance of ray pathlengths when measuring objects in maximum intensity projection images

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 568-579

  Schreiner, S ^a   Dawant, B M ^a   Paschal, C B ^a   Galloway, R L ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ANGIOGRAPHY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MATHEMATICAL MORPHOLOGY; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION;

ANEURYSM; FALSE NEGATIVE DIAGNOSIS; FALSE POSITIVE DIAGNOSIS; MAXIMUM INTENSITY PROJECTION IMAGES; OBJECT MEASUREMENT; PATHLENGTH EFFECT; RAY PATHLENGTHS;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

EID: 0030214415     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/42.511760     Document Type: Article

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