An assisted automated procedure for vessel geometry reconstruction and hemodynamic simulations from clinical imaging

Computerized Medical Imaging and Graphics

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 143-152

  Redaelli, A ^a   Rizzo, G ^b   Arrigoni, S ^b   Di Martino, E ^a   Origgi, D ^c   Fazio, F ^b   Montevecchi, F ^a  

^a POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^c EUROPEAN INSTITUTE OF ONCOLOGY   (Italy)

Author keywords

Carotid bifurcation; Contour extraction; Finite volume techniques; Segmentation; Volume reconstruction

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HEMODYNAMICS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; TOMOGRAPHY;

VESSEL GEOMETRY RECONSTRUCTION;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; CAROTID ARTERY BIFURCATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER PROGRAM; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; FLUID FLOW; GEOMETRY; HEMODYNAMICS; IMAGING; MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION; TECHNIQUE; TIME; TOMOGRAPHY; VASCULAR SURGERY;

AGED; CAROTID ARTERIES; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; HEMODYNAMIC PROCESSES; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MODELS, ANATOMIC; MODELS, CARDIOVASCULAR;

EID: 0037029078     PISSN: 08956111     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0895-6111(01)00038-6     Document Type: Article

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