CT data sets surface extraction for biomechanical modeling of long bones

Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine

Volumn 59, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 159-166

  Viceconti, Marco ^a   Zannoni, Cinzia ^b   Testi, Debora ^a   Cappello, Angelo ^b  

^a Lab di Tecnologia dei Materiali   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

CT slices; Discretized marching cube; Modelfem contours

Indexed keywords

BIOMECHANICS; BONE; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; FEATURE EXTRACTION; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MEDICAL IMAGING;

DISCRETIZED MARCHING CUBE (DMC) ALGORITHM; STANDARD MARCHING CUBE (SMC) ALGORITHM;

MEDICAL COMPUTING;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FEMUR; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; LONG BONE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHMS; BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); BIOMECHANICS; FEMUR; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; HUMANS; MODELS, ANATOMIC; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0032909127     PISSN: 01692607     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0169-2607(98)00107-2     Document Type: Article

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