A novel measurement technique to assess the effects of coronary brachytherapy in clinical trials

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 21, Issue 10, 2002, Pages 1254-1263

  Koning, Gerhard ^a   Tuinenburg, Joan C ^a   Hekking, Ellen ^b   Peelen, Janny ^b   Van Weert, Anton W M ^b   Bergkamp, Danny ^c   Goedhart, Bob ^c   Reiber, Johan H C ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b Heart Core BV   (Netherlands)

^c Medis Medical Imaging Systems bv   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Brachytherapy; Coronary disease; Quantitative coronary angiography; Restenosis

Indexed keywords

ANGIOGRAPHY; BLOOD VESSELS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE RECORDING; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; PATIENT MONITORING;

CLINICAL DISEASES; CLINICAL TRIALS; CORONARY BRACHYTHERAPY; IMAGE ACQUISITION; QUANTITATIVE CORONARY ANALYSIS; RESTENOSIS;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; BRACHYTHERAPY; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; EVALUATION; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; METHODOLOGY; OBSERVER VARIATION; PILOT STUDY; RADIOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY; RESTENOSIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STANDARD; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VALIDATION STUDY;

BRACHYTHERAPY; CLINICAL TRIALS; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY RESTENOSIS; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; OBSERVER VARIATION; PILOT PROJECTS; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0036826524     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMI.2002.806289     Document Type: Article

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