White and black blood volumetric angiographic filtering: Ellipsoidal scale-space approach

IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 142-158

  Suri, Jasjit S ^a,b   Liu, Kecheng ^b   Reden, Laura ^b   Laxminarayan, Swamy N ^c  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b PHILIPS HEALTHCARE   (United States)

^c NEW JERSEY INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Arteries; Black blood angiography (BBA); Contrast to noise ratio (CNR); Directional; Ellipsoidal; Magnetic resonance angiography (MRA); Maximum intensity projection (MaxIP); Median; Minimum intensity projection (MinIP); Pre filtering; Quantification

Indexed keywords

BLACK BLOOD ANGIOGRAPHY (BBA); WHITE BLOOD ANGIOGRAPHY (WBA);

ALGORITHMS; ANGIOGRAPHY; BLOOD VESSELS; COMPUTER PROGRAM LISTINGS; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; FILTRATION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

BLOOD;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BLOOD VESSEL; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; FEASIBILITY STUDY; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; METHODOLOGY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHMS; BLOOD VESSELS; CEREBROVASCULAR DISORDERS; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MODELS, CARDIOVASCULAR; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 0036591373     PISSN: 10897771     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TITB.2002.1006302     Document Type: Article

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