Airway wall thickness assessment: A new functionality in virtual bronchoscopy investigation

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 6511, Issue PART 1, 2007, Pages

  Saragaglia, A ^a   Fetita, C ^a   Brillet, P Y ^b   Preteux F ^a   Grenier, P A ^c  

^a INSTITUT NATIONAL DES TÉLÉCOMMUNICATIONS   (France)

^b AVICENNE HOSPITAL   (France)

^c PITIÉ SALPÊTRIÈRE HOSPITAL   (France)

Author keywords

3D segmentation; Airway reactivity; Bronchial wall remodeling; Bronchus wall; Deformable mesh; Virtual bronchoscopy

Indexed keywords

BIOPSY; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; THICKNESS MEASUREMENT; THREE DIMENSIONAL; VISUALIZATION;

AIRWAY REACTIVITY; BRONCHIAL WALL REMODELING; BRONCHUS WALLS; DEFORMABLE MESH; VIRTUAL BRONCHOSCOPY;

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS;

EID: 35148840235     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.709532     Document Type: Conference Paper

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