Medical volume exploration: Gaining insights virtually

European Journal of Radiology

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 161-169

  Blank, M ^a   Kalender, W A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Brain vasculature; Image analysis; MRI; Segmentation; Spiral CT; Virtual endoscopy; Virtual reality; Visualization; Volume rendering

Indexed keywords

BRAIN; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; ENDOCRINOLOGY; FEATURE EXTRACTION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; VIRTUAL REALITY;

VOLUME RENDERING;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

ARTICLE; BRAIN BLOOD VESSEL; BRAIN SIZE; ENDOSCOPY; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPIRAL COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; VIRTUAL REALITY; VOLUMETRY;

ALGORITHMS; BRONCHOSCOPY; CEREBRAL VEINS; HUMANS; INTRACRANIAL ANEURYSM; LARYNGOSCOPY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MOTION; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0033969621     PISSN: 0720048X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0720-048X(99)00140-0     Document Type: Article

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