3D reconstruction techniques made easy: Know-how and pictures

European Radiology

Volumn 15, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 2146-2156

  Luccichenti, Giacomo ^a   Cademartiri, Filippo ^b   Pezzella, Francesca Romana ^c   Runza, Giuseppe ^d   Belgrano, Manuel ^e   Midiri, Massimo ^d   Sabatini, Umberto ^a   Bastianello, Stefano ^f   Krestin, Gabriel P ^b  

^a IRCCS FONDAZIONE SANTA LUCIA   (Italy)

^b ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PALERMO   (Italy)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TRIESTE   (Italy)

^f UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Computed tomography (CT), image processing; Computed tomography (CT), three dimensional; Images, processing; Images, three dimensional

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCINTISCANNING; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

AUDIOVISUAL AIDS; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MOTION PICTURES; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 26044479871     PISSN: 09387994     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00330-005-2738-5     Document Type: Article

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