Volume Tracking: A new method for quantitative assessment and visualization of intracardiac blood flow from three-dimensional, time-resolved, three-component magnetic resonance velocity mapping

BMC Medical Imaging

Volumn 11, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Töger, Johannes ^a   Carlsson, Marcus ^a   Söderlind, Gustaf ^a   Arheden, Håkan ^a   Heiberg, Einar ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER INTERFACE; CORONARY ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; EVALUATION; FEMALE; HEART; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL PERFUSION IMAGING; PHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ADULT; ALGORITHMS; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; CORONARY CIRCULATION; FEMALE; HEART; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL PERFUSION IMAGING; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79953883564     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712342     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2342-11-10     Document Type: Article

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