Highly automated segmentation of arterial and venous trees from three-dimensional magnetic resonance angiography (MRA)

International Journal of Cardiac Imaging

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 37-47

  Stefancik, Robert M ^a   Sonka, Milan ^a  

^a University of Iowa   (United States)

Author keywords

Arterial tree; Blood pool MR contrast agent; Magnetic resonance angiography (MRA); Separation of arteries and veins; Venous tree

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTERY; ARTICLE; BLOOD; CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; EXPERIMENTATION; FUNCTIONAL ANATOMY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE DISPLAY; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; NON INVASIVE MEASUREMENT; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; VEIN;

ABDOMEN; ALGORITHMS; ARTERIES; BLOOD CIRCULATION; BLOOD VOLUME; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; LEG; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MODELS, CARDIOVASCULAR; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; VEINS;

EID: 0034927790     PISSN: 01679899     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1010656618835     Document Type: Article

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