In Vivo Three-Dimensional Surface Geometry of Abdominal Aortic Aneurysms

Annals of Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 469-479

  Sacks, Michael S ^a   Vorp, David A ^a   Raghavan, M L ^a   Federle, Michael P ^c   Webster, Marshall W ^b  

^a University of Pittsburgh   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Abdominal aortic aneurysm; Curvature; Three dimensional reconstruction; Tortuosity

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL AORTA; ABDOMINAL AORTA ANEURYSM; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; MECHANICAL STRESS; METHODOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; RADIOGRAPHY; STATISTICAL MODEL; SURFACE PROPERTY;

AORTA, ABDOMINAL; AORTIC ANEURYSM, ABDOMINAL; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MODELS, CARDIOVASCULAR; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; STRESS, MECHANICAL; SURFACE PROPERTIES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0033159762     PISSN: 00906964     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1114/1.202     Document Type: Article

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