A full 3-D reconstruction of the entire porcine coronary vasculature

American Journal of Physiology - Heart and Circulatory Physiology

Volumn 299, Issue 4, 2010, Pages

  Kaimovitz, Benjamin ^a   Lanir, Yoram ^a   Kassab, Ghassan S ^b  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

^b Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis   (United States)

Author keywords

Coronary veins; Diameter asymmetry; Large scale optimization; Morphometry; Three dimensional reconstruction

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CAPILLARY; CORONARY ARTERY; CORONARY BLOOD VESSEL; CORONARY CAPILLARY; CORONARY SINUS; CORONARY VEIN; EPICARDIUM; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MORPHOMETRICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCESS OPTIMIZATION; SIMULATION; SWINE; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; CAPILLARIES; CORONARY VESSELS; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MODELS, ANATOMIC; MODELS, ANIMAL; MODELS, CARDIOVASCULAR; SWINE; VEINS;

EID: 77958050935     PISSN: 03636135     EISSN: 15221539     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/ajpheart.00151.2010     Document Type: Article

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