Model-based measurements of the diameter of the internal carotid artery in CT angiography images

Medical Physics

Volumn 37, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 5711-5727

  Gratama Van Andel, H A F ^a   Venema, H W ^a   Bol, K ^b   Marquering, H A ^a   Majoie, C B ^a   Den Heeten, G J ^a   Grimbergen, C A ^a   Streekstra, G J ^a  

^a ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

blood vessels; carotid stenosis; computerized tomography; CT angiography; diagnostic radiography; elliptic Fourier descriptor; head neck; image registration; medical image processing; vessel segmentation

Indexed keywords

ANGIOGRAPHY; BIOMINERALIZATION; BLOOD VESSELS; BONE; DIAGNOSTIC RADIOGRAPHY; HEMODYNAMICS; HOSPITAL DATA PROCESSING; IMAGE REGISTRATION; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MEDICAL IMAGE PROCESSING; MEDICAL IMAGING; PATIENT TREATMENT; PHANTOMS; VOLUME MEASUREMENT;

CAROTID STENOSIS; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY ANGIOGRAPHY; CT ANGIOGRAPHY; ELLIPTIC FOURIER DESCRIPTOR; ELLIPTIC FOURIER DESCRIPTORS; NONCIRCULAR CROSS SECTION; THREE DIMENSIONAL ROTATIONAL ANGIOGRAPHY; VESSEL SEGMENTATION;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 78149440208     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3491808     Document Type: Article

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