In vivo interactive visualization of four-dimensional blood flow patterns : RRRealtime assessment of volumetric phase contrast MRI

Visual Computer

Volumn 25, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 853-862

  Kainz, Bernhard ^a   Reiter, Ursula ^b   Reiter, Gert ^c   Schmalstieg, Dieter ^a  

^a GRAZ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^c SIEMENS AG ÖSTERREICH   (Austria)

Author keywords

Cardiovascular diagnostics; Flow visualization; Phase contrast magnetic resonance imaging (PC MRI)

Indexed keywords

BLOOD FLOW PATTERNS; CARDIOVASCULAR DIAGNOSTICS; DATA SETS; DIAGNOSTIC CAPABILITIES; FLOW FEATURES; FLOW PHANTOM; HARDWARE-ACCELERATED; HUMAN SUBJECTS; HUMAN VASCULAR SYSTEMS; IN-VIVO; INTERACTIVE TOOL; INTERACTIVE VISUALIZATIONS; LINE INTEGRAL CONVOLUTION; PHASE CONTRAST MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHASE CONTRAST MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING (PC-MRI); PHASE CONTRAST MRI; THREE-DIMENSIONAL VELOCITY; TWO-DIMENSIONAL CUTTING;

CONVOLUTION; EXPERIMENTS; FEATURE EXTRACTION; FLOW PATTERNS; FLOW VISUALIZATION; FLUID DYNAMICS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

DATA VISUALIZATION;

EID: 68749083435     PISSN: 01782789     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00371-009-0315-7     Document Type: Conference Paper

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