Combined connectivity and a gray-level morphological filter in magnetic resonance coronary angiography

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 43, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 892-895

  Cline, H E ^a   Thedens, D R ^b   Meyer, C H ^b   Nishimura, D G ^b   Foo, T K ^c   Ludke, S ^a  

^a GE GLOBAL RESEARCH   (United States)

^b Stanford University   (United States)

^c GE MEDICAL SYSTEMS   (United States)

Author keywords

Angiograms; Cardiac; Coronary; Segmentation

Indexed keywords

BLOOD VESSELS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE; THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

ANGIOGRAMS; CARDIAC; CONNECTIVITY ALGORITHMS; CORONARY; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; MAXIMUM INTENSITY PROJECTION; MORPHOLOGICAL FILTERS; SURFACE RENDERING;

HEART;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CORONARY ARTERY; CORONARY VEIN; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; FILTER; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGE QUALITY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; NOISE; NORMAL HUMAN;

EID: 0034041447     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/1522-2594(200006)43:6<892::AID-MRM16>3.0.CO;2-Q     Document Type: Article

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