Assessment of Automatic Vessel Tracking Techniques in Preoperative Planning of Transluminal Aortic Stent Graft Implantation

Journal of Computer Assisted Tomography

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 278-285

  Boll, Daniel T ^a   Lewin, Jonathan S ^b   Duerk, Jeffrey L ^b   Smith, Dava ^b   Subramanyan, Krishna ^b   Merkle, Elmar M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS OF CLEVELAND   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Computed tomography (CT); Preoperative measurements; Stent graft; Volume rendering

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATION; BIFURCATION (MATHEMATICS); COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; GRAFTING (CHEMICAL); RELIABILITY ANALYSIS; STENTS; TRACKING (POSITION); VOLUME RENDERING; VOLUMETRIC ANALYSIS;

COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; ILIAC ARTERIES; INTEROBSERVER RELIABILITY; INTEROBSERVER VARIABILITY; INTRA-OBSERVER VARIABILITY; PRE-OPERATIVE PLANNING; PREOPERATIVE MEASUREMENT; STENT GRAFTS; TRACKING TECHNIQUES; VESSEL TRACKING;

BLOOD VESSELS;

ADULT; AGED; AORTA ANEURYSM; AORTA BIFURCATION; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; HUMAN; ILIAC ARTERY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE DISPLAY; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGING SYSTEM; MALE; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RENAL ARTERY; REPRODUCIBILITY; STENT; TIME; TREATMENT PLANNING; VOLUMETRY;

EID: 1642347110     PISSN: 03638715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00004728-200403000-00020     Document Type: Article

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