Use of 3D potential field and an enhanced breadth-first search algorithms for the path planning of microdevices propelled in the cardiovascular system

Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology - Proceedings

Volumn 7 VOLS, Issue , 2005, Pages 3916-3920

  Sabra, Wael ^a   Khouzam, Matthew ^a   Chanu, Arnaud ^a   Martel, Sylvain ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Angiogram; DICOM; Image processing; Local minima; Magnetic resonance imagery; Microsurgery; Path planning; Potential field; Wave propagation

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ANGIOGRAPHY; IMAGE PROCESSING; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MOTION PLANNING; WAVE PROPAGATION;

DICOM; LOCAL MINIMA; MICROSURGERY; POTENTIAL FIELDS;

CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM;

EID: 33846913718     PISSN: 05891019     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/iembs.2005.1615318     Document Type: Conference Paper

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