Survey of the visual exploration and analysis of perfusion data

IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 205-220

  Preim, Bernhard ^a   Oeltze, Steffen ^a   Mlejnek, Matej ^b   Gröller, Eduard ^c   Hennemuth, Anja ^d   Behrens, Sarah ^d  

^a OTTO VON GUERICKE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b AGFA HealthCare   (Austria)

^c VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^d FRAUNHOFER MEVIS   (Germany)

Author keywords

Medical visualization; Multiparameter visualization; Perfusion data; Volume rendering

Indexed keywords

MEDICAL IMAGING; THREE DIMENSIONAL; THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS; TUMORS; VISUALIZATION; VOLUME RENDERING;

3-D VISUALIZATIONS; APPLICATION AREAS; BREAST TUMORS; CONTRAST AGENTS; CORONARY HEART DISEASE; DYNAMIC CONTRASTS; EXISTING METHODS; EXPLORATION TECHNIQUES; HIGH RESOLUTIONS; IMAGE DATUM; ISCHEMIC STROKES; MEDICAL VISUALIZATION; MOTION ARTIFACTS; MULTIPARAMETER VISUALIZATION; MYOCARDIAL ISCHEMIAS; PERFUSION DATA; SEQUENCE OF IMAGES; TIME-INTENSITY CURVES; TISSUE PERFUSIONS; VISUAL EXPLORATIONS;

DATA VISUALIZATION;

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BRAIN; COMPUTER ASSISTED EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER INTERFACE; HEART; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; INFORMATION PROCESSING; METHODOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; SCINTIGRAPHY; SCINTISCANNING;

AUTOMATIC DATA PROCESSING; BRAIN; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; HEART; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MODELS, CARDIOVASCULAR; PERFUSION IMAGING; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 59049101137     PISSN: 10772626     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TVCG.2008.95     Document Type: Conference Paper

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