Atrial and ventricular myocardium extraction using model-based techniques

Methods of Information in Medicine

Volumn 45, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 19-26

  Pfeifer, Bernhard ^a   Fischer, G ^a   Hanser, F ^a   Seger, M ^a   Hintermuller C ^a   Modre Osprian, R ^a   Trieb, T ^b   Tilg, B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY FOR HEALTH SCIENCES   (Austria)

^b INNSBRUCK MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

Author keywords

Algorithms; Morphological operations; Myocardium

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CONDUCTOR; ELECTROSTIMULATION; EXTRACTION; HEART ATRIUM MUSCLE; HEART MUSCLE; HUMAN; IMAGING; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MORPHOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; AUSTRIA; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; HEART ATRIUM FUNCTION; HEART VENTRICLE FUNCTION;

ALGORITHMS; ATRIAL FUNCTION; AUSTRIA; HUMANS; MODELS, CARDIOVASCULAR; MYOCARDIUM; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION;

EID: 33645743947     PISSN: 00261270     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-0038-1634032     Document Type: Article

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