Novel approaches to the measurement of arterial blood flow from dynamic digital X-ray images

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 500-513

  Rhode, Kawal S ^a   Lambrou, Tryphon ^b   Hawkes, David J ^b   Seifalian, Alexander M ^b  

^a GUY S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Blood flow measurement; X ray angiography; X ray measurements

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ANGIOGRAPHY; BLOOD VESSELS; DATA REDUCTION; OPTICAL FLOWS; X RAYS;

BLOOD FLOW MEASUREMENTS; CURVE MATCHING; X -RAY MEASUREMENTS; X-RAY ANGIOGRAPHY;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHM; ARTERY; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIGITAL SUBTRACTION ANGIOGRAPHY; EVALUATION; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE SUBTRACTION; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; VALIDATION STUDY;

ALGORITHMS; ANGIOGRAPHY, DIGITAL SUBTRACTION; ARTERIES; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MODELS, CARDIOVASCULAR; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SUBTRACTION TECHNIQUE;

EID: 17444397479     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMI.2004.843202     Document Type: Article

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