Quantitative coronary angiography using image recovery techniques for background estimation in unsubtracted images

Medical Physics

Volumn 34, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 4003-4015

  Wong, Jerry T ^a   Kamyar, Farzad ^a   Molloi, Sabee ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Densitometry; Digital subtraction angiography; Geometric inpainting; Interpolation

Indexed keywords

ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; BIOMEDICAL SIGNAL PROCESSING; ERRORS; HEART; IMAGE RESOLUTION; INTERPOLATION; IODINE; PHANTOMS; STATISTICS;

BLOOD FLOW QUANTIFICATIONS; CURVATURE-DRIVEN DIFFUSIONS; DENSITOMETRY; DIGITAL SUBTRACTION ANGIOGRAPHY; INPAINTING; LEFT ANTERIOR DESCENDING ARTERIES; MORPHOLOGICAL FILTERING; ROOT MEAN SQUARE ERRORS;

MEAN SQUARE ERROR;

CONTRAST MEDIUM;

ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; DENSITOMETRY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIGITAL SUBTRACTION ANGIOGRAPHY; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTENSIFIER; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGE SUBTRACTION; NONHUMAN; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SWINE;

SUIDAE;

EID: 34748895955     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.2779942     Document Type: Article

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