GI tract unraveling with curved cross sections

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 318-322

  Wang, Ge ^a   McFarland, Elizabeth G ^a   Brown, Bruce P ^a   Vannier, Michael W ^b  

^a Department of Radiology ^*  (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

Colography; Computed tomography (CT); Spiral helical CT; Unraveling

Indexed keywords

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; ELECTRIC CHARGE; ELECTRIC FIELDS;

COLOGRAPHY; ELECTRICAL FORCE LINES;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHM; ANATOMY; ARTICLE; COLON; COLON POLYP; COLONOSCOPY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; METHODOLOGY; RADIOGRAPHY;

ALGORITHMS; ANATOMY, CROSS-SECTIONAL; COLON; COLONIC POLYPS; COLONOSCOPY; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0032034229     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/42.700745     Document Type: Article

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