Blood flow quantification from 2D phase contrast MRI in renal arteries using an unsupervised data driven approach

Zeitschrift fur Medizinische Physik

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 98-107

  Zöllner, Frank Gerrit ^a,b   Ankar Monssen, Jan ^c   Rørvik, Jarle ^b,c   Lundervold, Arvid ^b,c   Schad, Lothar R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^c HAUKELAND UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

Author keywords

clustering; flow quantification; medical image processing; PC MRI; Renal artery stenosis

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BLOOD FLOWMETRY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE DISPLAY; IMAGE PROCESSING; KIDNEY BLOOD FLOW; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; RENAL ARTERY;

BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MICROSCOPY, PHASE-CONTRAST; PULSATILE FLOW; RENAL ARTERY;

EID: 67349171022     PISSN: 09393889     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.zemedi.2008.10.011     Document Type: Article

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