A novel method for visualization of entire coronary arterial tree

Annals of Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 35, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 694-710

  Wischgoll, Thomas ^a   Meyer, Joerg ^b   Kaimovitz, Benjamin ^c   Lanir, Yoram ^c   Kassab, Ghassan S ^d,e  

^a Wright State University   (United States)

^b University of California at Irvine   (United States)

^c TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

^d Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis   (United States)

^e INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Coronary vasculature; Geometry reduction; Large scale visualization; Occlusion culling; Tree shaped data set

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; DATA STRUCTURES; PHYSIOLOGICAL MODELS;

CORONARY VASCULATURE; GEOMETRY REDUCTION; LARGE-SCALE VISUALIZATION; NEURONAL TREES; OCCLUSION CULLING; TREE-SHAPED DATA SET;

BLOOD VESSELS;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; AUDIOVISUAL EQUIPMENT; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CAPILLARY; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER INTERFACE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CORONARY BLOOD VESSEL; EVALUATION; HISTOLOGY; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; METHODOLOGY; SWINE; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ANIMALS; CAPILLARIES; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CORONARY VESSELS; DATA DISPLAY; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MODELS, ANATOMIC; MODELS, CARDIOVASCULAR; SWINE; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 34247341039     PISSN: 00906964     EISSN: 15739686     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10439-007-9278-x     Document Type: Article

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