Removal of bone in CT angiography by multiscale matched mask bone elimination

Medical Physics

Volumn 34, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 3711-3723

  Gratama Van Andel, H A F ^a   Venema, H W ^a,b   Streekstra, G J ^a   Van Straten, M ^a   Majoie, C B L M ^b   Den Heeten, G J ^b   Grimbergen, C A ^a  

^a ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bone removal; Computed tomography angiography (CTA); Imaging; Maximum intensity projection; Processing

Indexed keywords

ANGIOGRAPHY; BLOOD VESSELS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; PROCESSING; VOLUME RENDERING;

BONE REMOVAL; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY ANGIOGRAPHY; HIGHER NOISE LEVELS; MAXIMUM INTENSITY PROJECTION; MULTI-SCALE APPROACHES; OUT-OF-PLANE RESOLUTION; RECONSTRUCTION KERNEL; REDUCED RESOLUTION;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL; BONE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGING SYSTEM; KERNEL METHOD; MASK; MASKING; NOISE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOFT TISSUE;

EID: 34748904044     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.2767931     Document Type: Article

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