An automated algorithm to improve the precision of basilar artery diameter measurements before and after subarachnoid hemorrhage-induced vasospasm in an animal model

Neurosurgery

Volumn 66, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 137-142

  Salvetti, David J ^a   Sinha, Tuhin K ^b   Wilson, Kevin J ^b   Shay, Sheila D ^a   Spratt, Daniel E ^c   Mericle, Robert A ^c  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Animal model; Artery diameter measurement; Cerebral angiography; Image segmentation; Levelset formulation; Subarachnoid hemorrhage; Vasospasm

Indexed keywords

IODIXANOL;

ACCURACY; ALGORITHM; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTERY DIAMETER; ARTICLE; AUTOANALYSIS; BASILAR ARTERY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIGITAL SUBTRACTION ANGIOGRAPHY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MEASUREMENT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RABBIT; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; VASOSPASM;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; AUTOMATIC DATA PROCESSING; BASILAR ARTERY; CONTRAST MEDIA; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; RABBITS; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; VASOSPASM, INTRACRANIAL;

EID: 77249111713     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1227/01.NEU.0000362035.70735.63     Document Type: Article

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