Automatic generation of tetrahedral meshes from medical images

Computers and Structures

Volumn 81, Issue 8-11, 2003, Pages 765-775

  Kwon, Gi Hwan ^a   Chae, Soo Won ^a   Lee, Kyu Jung ^a  

^a Korea University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Advancing front; Branching; Correspondence; Medical images; Tetrahedral meshes; Tiling

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BIOMECHANICS; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING;

BIOMECHANICAL MODELS;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

EID: 0037401808     PISSN: 00457949     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0045-7949(02)00406-6     Document Type: Article

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