Volume rendering quantification algorithm for reconstruction of CT volume-rendered structures: Part I. Cerebral arteriovenous malformations

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 12-24

  Jani, Ashesh B ^a   Pelizzari, Charles A ^a   Chen, George T Y ^a   Roeske, John ^a   Hamilton, Russell J ^a   Macdonald, R Loch ^b   Bova, Frank ^b   Hoffmann, Kenneth R ^c   Sweeney, Patrick A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANGIOGRAPHY; BLOOD VESSELS; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; OPTICAL TRANSFER FUNCTION; THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS; TISSUE;

AXIAL CONTOURING; CEREBRAL ARTERIOVENOUS MALFORMATIONS; OPACITY TRANSFER FUNCTIONS; VOLUME RENDERING QUANTIFICATION ALGORITHM;

ALGORITHMS;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BRAIN ANGIOGRAPHY; BRAIN ARTERIOVENOUS MALFORMATION; CALIBRATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; RADIOGRAPHY; RADIOSURGERY;

ALGORITHMS; CALIBRATION; CEREBRAL ANGIOGRAPHY; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INTRACRANIAL ARTERIOVENOUS MALFORMATIONS; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RADIOSURGERY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0033624948     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/42.832956     Document Type: Article

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