Virtual 3D IVUS vessel model for intravascular brachytherapy planning. I. 3D segmentation, reconstruction, and visualization of coronary artery architecture and orientation

Medical Physics

Volumn 30, Issue 9, 2003, Pages 2530-2536

  Weichert, Frank ^a   Müller, Heinrich ^a   Quast, Ulrich ^b,c   Kraushaar, Andreas ^b,d   Spilles, Peter ^b,e   Heintz, Martin ^b   Wilke, Carsten ^b   Von Birgelen, Clemens ^b   Erbel, Raimund ^a   Wegener, Dietrich ^a  

^a TU DORTMUND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ESSEN   (Germany)

^c IT Services ^*  (Germany)

^d T SYSTEMS   (Germany)

^e SIEMENS AG   (Germany)

Author keywords

3D dosimetry; Image registration and 3D reconstruction; Intravascular brachytherapy; IVUS based planning; Virtual 3D vessel model

Indexed keywords

3D MODELING; ANGIOGRAPHY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MESH GENERATION; ONCOLOGY; RADIOTHERAPY; ULTRASONIC APPLICATIONS; VIRTUAL REALITY; VISUALIZATION;

3D RECONSTRUCTION; BIPLANE ANGIOGRAPHIES; CORONARY ARTERY SEGMENTS; INTERACTIVE SOFTWARE; INTERVENTIONAL TREATMENT; INTRAVASCULAR BRACHYTHERAPY; INTRAVASCULAR ULTRASOUND; VESSEL MODEL;

THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

ANGIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; BRACHYTHERAPY; COMPUTER ASSISTED THERAPY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CORONARY ARTERY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; INTRAVASCULAR ULTRASOUND; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TREATMENT PLANNING;

INSERTION SEQUENCES;

EID: 10744222554     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.1603964     Document Type: Article

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