Fast delineation and visualization of vessels in 3-d angiographie images

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 337-346

  Wink, Onno ^a,b   Niessen, Wiro J ^a,b   Viergever, Max A ^a,b  

^a IEEE   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Angiography; Central vessel axis; Surface rendering; Vessel tracking

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL AORTA ANEURYSM; ALGORITHM; ANGIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; BLOOD VESSEL; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; METHODOLOGY; RADIOGRAPHY;

ALGORITHMS; ANGIOGRAPHY; AORTIC ANEURYSM, ABDOMINAL; ARTIFACTS; BLOOD VESSELS; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; ITERATIVE METHODS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; VISUALIZATION;

SURFACE RENDERING;

ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY;

EID: 0034164341     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/42.848184     Document Type: Article

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