Automated curved planar reformation of 3D spine images

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 50, Issue 19, 2005, Pages 4527-4540

  Vrtovec, Tomaž ^a   Likar, Boštjan ^a   Pernuš, Franjo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; CURVE FITTING; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; POLYNOMIALS;

COORDINATE SYSTEM; CURVED PLANAR REFORMATION (CPR); POLYNOMIAL PARAMETERS; SPINE CURVES;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPINE; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MALE; SCOLIOSIS; SPINE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 25444448549     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 00319155     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/50/19/007     Document Type: Article

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