Coronary vessel cores from 3D imagery: A topological approach

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 5747, Issue I, 2005, Pages 505-513

  Szymczak, Andrzej ^a   Tannenbaum, Allen ^b   Mischaikow, Konstantin ^b  

^a Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

^b GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; BLOOD VESSELS; CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM; DIAGNOSIS; GRAPH THEORY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; THREE DIMENSIONAL; TOPOLOGY;

CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CORONARY ARTERIES; CT SCAN; VASCULAR TREES;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

EID: 23844438627     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.593837     Document Type: Conference Paper

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