Normal and pathological NCAT image and phantom data based on physiologically realistic left ventricle finite-element models

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 25, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 1604-1616

  Veress, Alexander I ^b   Segars, W Paul ^a,c   Weiss, Jeffrey A ^b   Tsui, Benjamin M W ^a,c   Gullberg, Grant T ^a,d  

^a IEEE

^b Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (United States)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cardiac imaging research; Finite element (FE); Ischemia; Left ventricle; Mechanical model; NURBS based cardiactorso (NCAT); SPECT phantom

Indexed keywords

CARDIOLOGY; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DATA REDUCTION; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY;

CARDIAC IMAGING RESEARCH; ISCHEMIA; LEFT VENTRICLE; MECHANICAL MODEL; NURBS BASED CARDIACTORSO (NCAT); SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY (SPECT); SPECT PHANTOM;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; AUDIOVISUAL EQUIPMENT; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EVALUATION; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEART VENTRICLE; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; RADIOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFACTS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; HEART VENTRICLES; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MODELS, ANATOMIC; MODELS, CARDIOVASCULAR; MOVEMENT; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 33845596247     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMI.2006.884213     Document Type: Article

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