Cine MPR: Interactive Multiplanar Reformatting of Four-Dimensional Cardiac Data Using Hardware-Accelerated Texture Mapping

IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 384-393

  Shekhar, Raj ^a   Zagrodsky, Vladimir ^a  

^a LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Four dimensional (4 D) cardiac image; Multiplanar reformatting; Real time 3 D ultrasound; Texture mapping; Visualization

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER HARDWARE; DATA PROCESSING; MEDICAL IMAGING; PERSONAL COMPUTERS; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; ULTRASONICS;

FOUR-DIMENSIONAL (4-D) CARDIAC IMAGE; MULTIPLANAR REFORMATTING; REAL-TIME 3-D ULTRASOUND; TEXTURE MAPPING;

CARDIOLOGY;

ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTER INTERFACE; EVALUATION; FOUR DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART; HEART CONTRACTION; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); PHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; VALIDATION STUDY; VIDEORECORDING;

COMPUTING METHODOLOGIES; DATA COMPRESSION; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, FOUR-DIMENSIONAL; HEART; HUMANS; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; MOVEMENT; MYOCARDIAL CONTRACTION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE; VIDEO RECORDING;

EID: 1442288630     PISSN: 10897771     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TITB.2003.821320     Document Type: Article

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