Mapping the coronary arteries on a sphere in CT angiography

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5367, Issue , 2004, Pages 285-293

  Lavi, Guy ^a  

^a PHILIPS HEALTHCARE   (United States)

Author keywords

Computed tomography angiography; Coronary arteries; Coronary tree visualization; Globe; Sphere

Indexed keywords

ANGIOGRAPHY; APPROXIMATION THEORY; BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; BLOOD VESSELS; CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; MATRIX ALGEBRA;

COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERIES; CORONARY TREE VISUALIZATION; SPHERE;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 5644303000     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.534571     Document Type: Conference Paper

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