A methodology to study the morphologic changes in lesions during in vitro angioplasty using MRI and image processing

Medical Image Analysis

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 163-173

  Auer, M ^a,c   Regitnig, P ^b   Stollberger, R ^a   Ebner, F ^b   Holzapfel, G A ^a,c  

^a GRAZ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^c ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Angioplasty; Atherosclerotic plaque; Image processing; In vitro; Magnetic resonance imaging

Indexed keywords

IMAGE ACQUISITION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MORPHOLOGY;

ANGIOPLASTY; ATHEROSCLEROTIC PLAQUE; LESIONS;

SURGERY;

CONTRAST MEDIUM; LIPID;

ARTERY CALCIFICATION; ARTERY DILATATION; ARTERY MEDIA; ARTERY OCCLUSION; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROTIC PLAQUE; BIOMECHANICS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN; FEMORAL ARTERY; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; GEOMETRY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGING SYSTEM; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; INTESTINE PRESSURE; INTIMA; METHODOLOGY; MORPHOMETRICS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PERCUTANEOUS TRANSLUMINAL ANGIOPLASTY; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCIBILITY; SYRINGE; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHMS; ANGIOPLASTY; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FEMORAL ARTERY; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MODELS, CARDIOVASCULAR; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; PROGNOSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SURGERY, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 41849147897     PISSN: 13618415     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.media.2007.09.001     Document Type: Article

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