Virtual dissection of the colon: Technique and first experiments with artificial and cadaveric phantoms

Proceedings of SPIE-The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4681, Issue , 2002, Pages 713-721

  Balogh, Emese ^a   Sorantin, Erich ^b   Nyúl, László G ^a   Palágyi, Kálmán ^a   Kuba, Attila ^a   Werkgartner, Georg ^b   Spuller, Ekke ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SZEGED   (Hungary)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL GRAZ   (Austria)

Author keywords

Artificial Colonic Phantoms; Computer Tomography; Image Display; Virtual Dissection

Indexed keywords

CADAVERIC EXPERIMENTS; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; TUMORS;

COLONS;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

EID: 0036061143     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/12.466982     Document Type: Article

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