Interactive 3D stereoscopic digital-image analysis of the basilar artery bifurcation

Clinical Anatomy

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 127-137

  Zurada, Anna ^a   Gielecki, Jerzy St ^a   Baron, Jan ^a   Zawiliński, Jarosław ^b   Kozłowska, Hanna ^c  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SILESIA   (Poland)

^b JAGIELLONIAN UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

^c POLISH ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (Poland)

Author keywords

Anatomy; Basilar artery; Bifurcation angle; Classification; Distances; Dorsum sellae; Posterior biclinoid plane; Posterior clinoid process

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANEURYSM; ARTICLE; BASILAR ARTERY; BASILAR ARTERY ANEURYSM; BONE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DIGITAL IMAGING; FEMALE; HEMODYNAMIC STRESS; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEUROSURGERY; PHYSICIAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; BASILAR ARTERY; BRAIN; CHILD; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SKULL;

EID: 40549111914     PISSN: 08973806     EISSN: 10982353     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ca.20598     Document Type: Article

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