Estimation of three-dimensional cardiac velocity fields: Assessment of a differential method and application to three-dimensional CT data

Medical Image Analysis

Volumn 1, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 245-261

  Gorce, Jean Marie ^a   Friboulet, D ^a   Magnin, I E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE LYON   (France)

Author keywords

3 D velocity field; Cardiac motion; Motion estimation; Optical flow

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DOG; HEART; HEART CONTRACTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; RADIOGRAPHY;

ANIMALS; DOGS; HEART; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MYOCARDIAL CONTRACTION; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 0031107376     PISSN: 13618415     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1361-8415(97)85013-X     Document Type: Article

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