Computer-based automated left atrium segmentation and volumetry from ECG-gated coronary CT angiography data: Comparison with manual slice segmentation and ultrasound planimetric methods

RoFo Fortschritte auf dem Gebiet der Rontgenstrahlen und der Bildgebenden Verfahren

Volumn 182, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 1110-1117

  Bauer, R W ^a   Kraus, B ^a   Bernhardt, D ^b   Kerl, J M ^a   Lehnert, T ^a   Ackermann, H ^a   Vega Higuera, F ^b   Vogl, T J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL FRANKFURT   (Germany)

^b SIEMENS AG   (Germany)

Author keywords

cardiac; CT; diagnostic radiology; heart; segmentation; technology assessment

Indexed keywords

IOMEPROL; METOPROLOL TARTRATE;

AGED; ARTICLE; CARDIAC GATED IMAGING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEART LEFT ATRIUM; HUMAN; IMAGING SYSTEM; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TWO DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; VOLUMETRY;

AGED; ANGIOGRAPHY; CARDIAC-GATED IMAGING TECHNIQUES; CONTRAST MEDIA; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; DIASTOLE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART ATRIA; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; IOPAMIDOL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ORGAN SIZE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SOFTWARE; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; SYSTOLE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 78649518963     PISSN: 14389029     EISSN: 14389010     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-0029-1245729     Document Type: Article

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