Extraction of morphometry and branching angles of porcine coronary arterial tree from CT images

American Journal of Physiology - Heart and Circulatory Physiology

Volumn 297, Issue 5, 2009, Pages

  Wischgoll, Thomas ^a   Choy, Jenny S ^b   Kassab, Ghassan S ^b,c  

^a Wright State University   (United States)

^b Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis   (United States)

^c INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Computed tomography; Coronary arteries; Image analysis; Segmentation

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL DIAMETER; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY; FEMALE; LEFT ANTERIOR DESCENDING CORONARY ARTERY; MALE; MORPHOMETRICS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIGHT CORONARY ARTERY; SWINE;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY VESSELS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MODELS, ANATOMIC; MODELS, CARDIOVASCULAR; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; REPLICA TECHNIQUES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SILICONE ELASTOMERS; SWINE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 70350450964     PISSN: 03636135     EISSN: 15221539     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/ajpheart.00093.2009     Document Type: Article

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