High-resolution reconstruction of a waxed heart specimen with flat panel volume computed tomography and rapid prototyping

Journal of Computer Assisted Tomography

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 444-448

  Greil, Gerald F ^a   Kuettner, Axel ^b   Flohr, Thomas ^c   Grasruck, Michael ^c   Sieverding, Ludger ^a   Meinzer, Hans Peter ^d   Wolf, Ivo ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^c SIEMENS AG   (Germany)

^d GERMAN CANCER RESEARCH CENTER DKFZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

3D computed modeling; Cardiac imaging; Flat panel volume computed tomography scanner (FPVCT); Iterative closest point algorithm (ICP); Medical rapid prototyping

Indexed keywords

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; ITERATIVE METHODS; LASER HEATING; RAPID PROTOTYPING; SCANNING; SINTERING;

3D COMPUTED MODELING; CARDIAC IMAGING; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNERS; FLAT PANEL; FLAT PANEL VOLUME COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; HIGH-RESOLUTION RECONSTRUCTION; ITERATIVE CLOSEST POINTS ALGORITHMS; ITERATIVE-CLOSE-POINT ALGORITHM; LASER SINTERED; MEDICAL RAPID PROTOTYPING;

HEART;

ALGORITHM; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; HEART; HIGH RESOLUTION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGING SYSTEM; LASER; NONHUMAN; PIGLET; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

EID: 34249804460     PISSN: 03638715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.rct.0000238012.49684.69     Document Type: Article

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