Vessel surface reconstruction with a tubular deformable model

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 20, Issue 12, 2001, Pages 1411-1421

  Yim, Peter J ^a   Cebral, Juan J ^b   Mullick, Rakesh ^c   Marcos, Hani B ^a   Choyke, Peter L ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^b George Mason University   (United States)

^c GE GLOBAL RESEARCH   (India)

Author keywords

Atherosclerosis; Deformable model; Magnetic resonance angiography; Surface reconstruction

Indexed keywords

ANGIOGRAPHY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DISEASES; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

ATHEROSCLEROSIS; DEFORMABLE MODEL; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; TUBULAR COORDINATE SYSTEM; VESSEL SURFACE RECONSTRUCTION;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CAROTID ARTERY; CAROTID ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ELASTICITY; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; KIDNEY ARTERY STENOSIS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; METHODOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; STENOSIS, OCCLUSION AND OBSTRUCTION; SURFACE PROPERTY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

CAROTID ARTERIES; CAROTID STENOSIS; CONSTRICTION, PATHOLOGIC; ELASTICITY; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MODELS, CARDIOVASCULAR; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RENAL ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

EID: 0035544625     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/42.974935     Document Type: Article

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