Facilitating coronary artery evaluation in MDCT using a 3D automatic vessel segmentation tool

European Radiology

Volumn 16, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 1789-1795

  Khan, M Fawad ^a   Wesarg, Stefan ^b   Gurung, Jessen ^a   Dogan, Selami ^a   Maataoui, Adel ^a   Brehmer, Boris ^a   Herzog, Christopher ^a   Ackermann, Hanns ^a   Aßmus, Birgit ^a   Vogl, Thomas J ^a  

^a GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b FRAUNHOFER IGD   (Germany)

Author keywords

Computed tomography; Coronary vessels; Vessel segmentation

Indexed keywords

ESMOLOL; IOPROMIDE;

ADULT; AGED; ALGORITHM; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; AUTOANALYSIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; MEDICAL INSTRUMENTATION; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STANDARDIZATION; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

AGED; ALGORITHMS; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY DISEASE; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 33745838162     PISSN: 09387994     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00330-006-0159-8     Document Type: Article

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