Three-Dimensional Isotropic Wavelets for Post-Acquisitional Extraction of Latent Images of Atherosclerotic Plaque Components from Micro-Computed Tomography of Human Coronary Arteries

Academic Radiology

Volumn 14, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 1509-1519

  Gertz, S David ^a,b,g   Bodmann, Bernhard G ^c   Vela, Deborah ^a,b   Papadakis, Manos ^e   Aboshady, Ibrahim ^a,b   Cherukuri, Paul ^d   Alexander, Simon ^e   Kouri, Donald J ^e   Baid, Shikha ^e   Gittens, Alex A ^e   Gladish, Gregory W ^f   Conyers, Jodie L ^a,b   Cody, Dianna D ^f   Gavish, Lilach ^g   Mazraeshahi, Reza M ^a,h   Wilner, Wayne T ⁱ   Frazier, Lorraine ⁱ   Madjid, Mohammad ^b   Zarrabi, Alireza ^a,b   Lukovenkov, Serhiy ^a   Ahmed, Amany ^a,b   Willerson, James T ^a,b   Casscells, S Ward ^a,b   more..

^a ST LUKE S EPISCOPAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^d RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e University of Houston   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^g HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^h WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

ⁱ NONE

Author keywords

atherosclerotic plaque components; coronary atherosclerosis; micro CT; three dimensional isotropic wavelet analysis; vulnerable plaque; Wavelet; wavelet transform

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ALGORITHM; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROTIC PLAQUE; AUTOPSY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY; CORONARY ARTERY ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; MICRO-COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPECTRAL SENSITIVITY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; WAVEFORM;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALGORITHMS; CALCINOSIS; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY VESSELS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; LIPIDS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE, SMOOTH, VASCULAR; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TIME FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 36248979297     PISSN: 10766332     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.acra.2007.06.018     Document Type: Article

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