Automatic Selection of the Optimal Cardiac Phase for Gated Three-dimensional Coronary x-ray Angiography

Academic Radiology

Volumn 13, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 630-640

  Rasche, Volker ^a   Movassaghi, Babak ^b   Grass, Michael ^c   Schäfer, Dirk ^c   Buecker, Arno ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

^b PHILIPS RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (Netherlands)

^c PHILIPS RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (Germany)

^d RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Coronary angiography; gating window optimization; three dimensional reconstruction

Indexed keywords

ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; CORONARY ARTERY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; HEART CYCLE; HISTOGRAM; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SWINE; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; X RAY;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SWINE;

EID: 33748188978     PISSN: 10766332     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.acra.2006.01.010     Document Type: Article

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