Development of optimized vascular fractal tree models using level set distance function

Medical Engineering and Physics

Volumn 32, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 790-794

  Bui, Anh V ^a   Manasseh, Richard ^a,b   Liffman, Kurt ^a,c,d   Šutalo, Ilija D ^a,d  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^c MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Constrained optimization; Fractal tree; Level set; Vascular

Indexed keywords

CONSTRAINED OPTIMIZATION; FORESTRY; FRACTALS; PHYSIOLOGY;

CEREBRAL VASCULATURE; CONSTRAINED CONSTRUCTIVE OPTIMIZATION; FRACTAL TREES; GEOMETRIC PROPERTIES; LEVEL SET; LEVEL SET FUNCTIONS; TIME-DEPENDENT CONSTRAINTS; VASCULAR;

PHYSIOLOGICAL MODELS;

ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; BRAIN BLOOD VESSEL; FRACTAL ANALYSIS; GEOMETRY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCESS OPTIMIZATION; SURFACE PROPERTY;

EID: 77955267394     PISSN: 13504533     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.medengphy.2010.04.014     Document Type: Article

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