Automated vessel edge detection in velocity-encoded cine-MR (VEC-MR) flow measurements: A retrospective evaluation in critically ill patients

European Journal of Radiology

Volumn 48, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 274-281

  Henk, Christine B ^a   Grampp, Stephan ^a   Backfrieder, Werner ^a   Liskutin, Jasmin ^b   Czerny, Christian ^a   Mostbeck, Gerhard H ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b Hospital of the Brothers of St John   (Austria)

^c OTTO WAGNER HOSPITAL   (Austria)

Author keywords

Computers; Diagnostic aid; Flow dynamics; Magnetic resonance (MR); Pulmonary arteries; Vascular studies

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATION; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; EDGE DETECTION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE; PATIENT TREATMENT; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RESPIRATORY SYSTEM;

CROSS-SECTIONAL AREA (CSA); INSTANTANEOUS FLOW (IF); MEAN SPATIAL VELOCITY (MSV);

RADIOLOGY;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASCENDING AORTA; CHRONIC LUNG DISEASE; CINERADIOGRAPHY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRITICAL ILLNESS; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; FLOW MEASUREMENT; FLOW RATE; HUMAN; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; LUNG CIRCULATION; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY ARTERY; PULMONARY HYPERTENSION; STUDENT T TEST; THROMBOEMBOLISM; VELOCITY;

EID: 0344063424     PISSN: 0720048X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0720-048X(03)00042-1     Document Type: Article

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