New Vessel Analysis Tool for Morphometric Quantification and Visualization of Vessels in CT and MR Imaging Data Sets

Radiographics

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 287-297

  Boskamp, Tobias ^a   Rinck, Daniel ^b   Link, Florian ^a   Kümmerlen, Bernd ^a   Stamm, Georg ^c   Mildenberger, Peter ^d  

^a FRAUNHOFER MEVIS   (Germany)

^b SIEMENS AG   (Germany)

^c HANNOVER MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Germany)

^d JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Computed tomography (CT), angiography; Computers, diagnostic aid; Images, processing; Magnetic resonance (MR), vascular studies

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL WALL; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTENSIFIER; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; METHODOLOGY; MORPHOMETRICS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING;

EID: 1642294566     PISSN: 02715333     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/rg.241035073     Document Type: Article

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