Volume rendering based on magnetic resonance imaging: Advances in understanding the three-dimensional anatomy of the human knee

Journal of Anatomy

Volumn 211, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 399-406

  Anastasi, Giuseppe ^a   Bramanti, Placido ^b   Di Bella, Paolo ^b   Favaloro, Angelo ^a   Trimarchi, Fabio ^a   Magaudda, Ludovico ^a   Gaeta, Michele ^a   Scribano, Emanuele ^a   Bruschetta, Daniele ^a   Milardi, Demetrio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MESSINA   (Italy)

^b IRCCS CENTRO NEUROLESI BONINO PULEJO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Direct volume rendering; Knee; MRI

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; KNEE RADIOGRAPHY; MALE; MORPHOMETRICS; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL ANATOMY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TREATMENT PLANNING;

ADULT; AUDIOVISUAL AIDS; CARTILAGE, ARTICULAR; ENDOSCOPY; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; KNEE; LIGAMENTS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MODELS, ANATOMIC; TENDONS;

EID: 34548523191     PISSN: 00218782     EISSN: 14697580     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-7580.2007.00770.x     Document Type: Article

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