Vessel size measurements in angiograms: A comparison of techniques

Medical Physics

Volumn 29, Issue 7, 2002, Pages 1622-1633

  Hoffmann, Kenneth R ^a   Nazareth, Daryl P ^a   Miskolczi, László ^a   Gopal, Anant ^a   Wang, Zhou ^a   Rudin, Stephen ^a   Bednarek, Daniel R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CIRCULAR CROSS-SECTIONS; DERIVATIVE TECHNIQUE; INTERVENTIONAL PROCEDURES; LINE SPREAD FUNCTIONS; LINEAR COMBINATIONS; MODEL BASED TECHNIQUES; SECOND DERIVATIVES; THRESHOLDING TECHNIQUES;

FULL WIDTH AT HALF MAXIMUM;

ACCURACY; ANGIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL DIAMETER; DENSITOMETRY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MEASUREMENT; MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION; TECHNIQUE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ANGIOGRAPHY; DENSITOMETRY; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0035996474     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.1488603     Document Type: Article

References (32)

1. Interobserver variability in coronary angiography
2. In-vivo validation of on-line and off-line geometric coronary measurements using insertion of stenosis phantoms in porcine coronary arteries
3. A new approach for the quantification of complex lesion morphology: The gradient field transform; basic principles and validation results
4. Automated evaluation of vessel diameter from arteriograms
5. Digital radiographic assessment of coronary arterial geometric diameter and videodensitometric cross-sectional area
6. Estimation of the diameter of and iodine concentration within blood vessels using digital radiography devices
7. Cross-sectional area measurements by digital subtraction videodensitometry
8. Image feature analysis and computer-aided diagnosis in digital radiography. 2. Computerized determination of vessel sizes in digital subtraction angiographic images
9. Absolute diameter measurements of coronary arteries based on the first zero crossing of the Fourier spectrum
10. A new model-based technique for enhanced small-vessel measurement in x-ray cine-angiograms
11. Structural analysis of the coronary arterial tree
12. Automated tracking and computer reproduction of vessels in DSA images
13. Recursive tracking of vascular networks in angiograms based on the detection-deletion scheme
14. Determination of radiographic screen-film characteristic curve and its gradient by use of a curve-smoothing technique
15. Computer-aided bootstrap generation of characteristic curves for radiographic imaging systems
16. Investigation of basic imaging properties in digital radiography. 5. Characteristic curves of II-TV digital systems
17. Transfer function analysis of radiographic imaging systems
18. Dynamic mechanisms in human coronary stenosis
19. Comparison of convolution and ray-tracing methods for computing small blood vessel images in angiography
20. Validity of computer simulation of blood vessel imaging in angiography
21. Quantitative evaluation of a coronary vessel tracking technique on clinical angiographic projections
22. Investigation of basic imaging properties in digital radiography. 6. MTFs of II-TV digital imaging systems
23. A simple method for determining the modulation transfer function in digital radiography
24. Evaluation of focal spot distribution by RMS value and its effect of blood vessel imaging in angiography
25. Effect of focal spot distribution on blood vessel imaging in magnification radiology,
26. X-ray tube focal spot sizes: Comprehensive studies of their measurement and effect of measured size in angiography,
27. Simulating coronary arteries in x-ray angiograms
28. Measurement of atherosclerotic luminal irregularity and obstruction by radiographic densitometry
29. Best estimate of luminal cross-sectional area of coronary arteries from angiograms
30. Adaptive approach to accurate analysis of small-diameter vessels in cineangiograms
31. Quantitative coronary arteriography: Current status and future