Nonrigid Registration for Subtraction CT Angiography Applied to the Carotids and Cranial Arteries

Academic Radiology

Volumn 14, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 1562-1576

  Loeckx, Dirk ^a   Coudyzer, Walter ^a   Maes, Frederik ^a   Vandermeulen, Dirk ^a   Wilms, Guido ^a   Marchal, Guy ^a   Suetens, Paul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

carotids; CT angiography; CTA; head and neck; nonrigid registration

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; BRAIN ARTERY; CAROTID ARTERY; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE SUBTRACTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHMS; ANGIOGRAPHY; ARTIFACTS; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CAROTID ARTERIES; CAROTID ARTERY, COMMON; CAROTID STENOSIS; CONTRAST MEDIA; HEAD; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; SKULL; SUBTRACTION TECHNIQUE; TIME FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 36248979268     PISSN: 10766332     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.acra.2007.06.008     Document Type: Article

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