The description of vascular variations in three-dimensional space: A novel method of spatial cerebral arteries evaluation

Medical Science Monitor

Volumn 14, Issue 9, 2008, Pages

  Gielecki, Jerzy S ^a   Zurada, Anna ^a   Gajda, Grzegorz ^a   Nowak, Dariusz ^b   Sienkiewicz Zawilińska, Justyna ^c  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SILESIA   (Poland)

^b NICOLAUS COPERNICUS UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

^c JAGIELLONIAN UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

Author keywords

Curvature angle; Deviation index; Direction cosines; Quantitative descriptions; Tortuous index; Vessels

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ALGORITHM; ANATOMICAL VARIATION; ARTICLE; BRAIN ARTERY; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHMS; CEREBRAL ARTERIES; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MATHEMATICS; SOFTWARE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 52249123065     PISSN: 12341010     EISSN: 16433750     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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