Coronary angiography enhancement for visualization

International Journal of Cardiovascular Imaging

Volumn 25, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 657-667

  Tu, Shengxian ^a,b   Koning, Gerhard ^a,b   Tuinenburg, Joan C ^a,b   Jukema, Wouter ^a   Zhang, Su ^c   Chen, Yazhu ^c   Reiber, Johan H C ^a,b  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b Medis Medical Imaging Systems bv   (Netherlands)

^c SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Contrast enhancement; Lateral inhibition; Noise; Stick

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; OPTICAL RESOLUTION; PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENT SYSTEM; SCORING SYSTEM; STICK GUIDED LATERAL INHIBITION ALGORITHM; UNSHARP MASKING ALGORITHM; VALIDATION STUDY;

ALGORITHMS; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; HUMANS; OBSERVER VARIATION; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 69249202323     PISSN: 15695794     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10554-009-9482-x     Document Type: Article

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