Automated calibration in vascular x-ray images using the accurate localization of catheter marker bands

Investigative Radiology

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 219-226

  Van Assen, Hans C ^a   Vrooman, Henri A ^a   Egmont Petersen, Michael ^a   Bosch, Hans G ^a   Koning, Gerhard ^a   Van Der Linden, Edwin L ^a   Goedhart, Bob ^a   Reiber, Johan H C ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Calibration; Catheter markers; Center of gravity; Curve fitting; Hough transform; Stenosis quantification; Vascular angiography

Indexed keywords

ARTERIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; BLOOD VESSEL CATHETERIZATION; BLOOD VESSEL DIAMETER; CALIBRATION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; X RAY ANALYSIS;

EID: 0034046741     PISSN: 00209996     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00004424-200004000-00002     Document Type: Article

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