Analysis of arterial sub-trees affected by pulmonary emboli

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5370 III, Issue , 2004, Pages 1720-1729

  Kiraly, Atilla P ^a   Pichon, Eric ^b   Naidich, David P ^c   Novak, Carol L ^a  

^a SIEMENS CORPORATE RESEARCH   (United States)

^b GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c NEW YORK UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Center line computation; Computed tomography (ct); Pulmonary embolism (pe); Tree analysis

Indexed keywords

CENTER-LINE COMPUTATION; CONTRAST-ENHANCED CT IMAGES; PULMONARY EMBOLISM (PE); TREE ANALYSIS;

BIFURCATION (MATHEMATICS); BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MEDICAL IMAGING; PATIENT MONITORING; TREES (MATHEMATICS);

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 5644304356     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.535993     Document Type: Conference Paper

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