Scanning techniques for three-dimensional forward-viewing intravascular ultrasound imaging

Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 26, Issue 9, 2000, Pages 1461-1474

  Gatzoulis, Loukianos ^a   Anderson, Tom ^a   Pye, Stephen D ^a   O'Donnell, Robert ^a   McLean, Calum C ^a   McDicken, W Norman ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b ROYAL INFIRMARY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Forward viewing; Intravascular ultrasound; Scanning patterns; Three dimensional; Tissue mimicking material; Vessel phantom

Indexed keywords

ARTERY DISEASE; ARTICLE; CORONARY ARTERY ATHEROSCLEROSIS; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; INTRAVASCULAR ULTRASOUND; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TECHNIQUE; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TRANSDUCER;

ARTERIAL OCCLUSIVE DISEASES; ARTERIES; CONSTRICTION, PATHOLOGIC; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL;

EID: 0034496465     PISSN: 03015629     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0301-5629(00)00306-9     Document Type: Article

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