Identifying and tracking a guide wire in the coronary arteries during angioplasty from x-ray images

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 44, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 152-164

  Palti Wasserman, Daphna ^a   Brukstein, Alfred M ^a   Beyar, Rafaël P ^a  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Coronary angioplasty; guidewire; tracking; ventricular function; wall motion

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CORONARY ARTERY DILATATION; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; GUIDE WIRE; HEART MOVEMENT; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION;

ALGORITHMS; ANGIOPLASTY, TRANSLUMINAL, PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY; ARTIFACTS; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; FILTRATION; HUMANS; MICROCOMPUTERS; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; SOFTWARE DESIGN;

EID: 0031038095     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/10.552245     Document Type: Article

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