Diffusion-enhanced visualization and quantification of vascular anomalies in three-dimensional rotational angiography: Results of an in-vitro evaluation

Medical Image Analysis

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 215-233

  Meijering, Erik ^a,c   Niessen, Wiro ^a   Weickert, Joachim ^b   Viergever, Max ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^b SAARLAND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Edge enhancing anisotropic diffusion; In vitro evaluation; Isotropic nonlinear diffusion; Linear diffusion; Noise reduction; Three dimensional rotational angiography

Indexed keywords

ANGIOGRAPHY; ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM; COMPUTER MEMORY; CONGENITAL BLOOD VESSEL MALFORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; FILTRATION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGING SYSTEM; IN VITRO STUDY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LINEAR SYSTEM; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; NOISE; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TIME;

ALGORITHMS; CAROTID STENOSIS; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; INTRACRANIAL ANEURYSM; MIDDLE AGED; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES;

EID: 0036755110     PISSN: 13618415     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1361-8415(02)00081-6     Document Type: Article

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