Single-seeded coronary artery tracking in CT angiography

IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record

Volumn 5, Issue , 2004, Pages 3308-3311

  Lavi, Guy ^a   Lessick, Jonathan ^a,b   Johnson, Peter C ^a   Khullar, Divya ^a  

^a PHILIPS HEALTHCARE   (United States)

^b RAMBAM MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BLOOD VESSELS; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MEDICAL IMAGING; VISUALIZATION;

AUTOMATIC SEGMENTATION TOOLS; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY (CT) ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERIES; THREE-DIMENSIONAL SEGMENTATION;

ANGIOGRAPHY;

EID: 23844461972     PISSN: 10957863     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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