Three-dimensional reconstruction of LV endocardial surfaces from echocardiographic images using deformable shell models

Computers in Cardiology

Volumn 0, Issue 0, 1996, Pages 697-700

  Lin, Remin ^a   Chen, Shiuh Yung J ^a   Mor Avi, Victor ^a   Bednarz, James ^a   Chen, Chin Tu ^a   Lang, Roberto M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CARDIOLOGY; CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; INTERPOLATION; MEDICAL IMAGING; NONINVASIVE MEDICAL PROCEDURES; THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS; ULTRASONIC IMAGING; ULTRASONIC TRANSDUCERS;

ACOUSTIC QUANTIFICATION; DEFORMABLE SHELL MODELS; LEFT VENTRICULAR ENDOCARDIAL SURFACES; SURFACE RECONSTRUCTION; TRANSTHORACIC MULTIPLANE TRANSDUCER;

ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

EID: 0030400478     PISSN: 02766574     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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