Probabilistic 4D blood flow tracking and uncertainty estimation

Medical Image Analysis

Volumn 15, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 720-728

  Friman, Ola ^a   Hennemuth, Anja ^a   Harloff, Andreas ^b   Bock, Jelena ^b   Markl, Michael ^b,c   Peitgen, Heinz Otto ^a  

^a FRAUNHOFER MEVIS   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^c NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Blood flow; Phase Contrast MRI; Probabilistic tracking; Sequential monte carlo; Uncertainty

Indexed keywords

BLOOD FLOW; PHASE CONTRAST MRI; PROBABILISTIC TRACKING; SEQUENTIAL MONTE CARLO; UNCERTAINTY;

BLOOD; HEMODYNAMICS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MONTE CARLO METHODS; SAMPLING; TISSUE; VISUALIZATION;

UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

AORTA ANEURYSM; AORTA DISEASE; AORTA FLOW; AORTA RETROGRADE BLOOD FLOW; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BLOOD FLOWMETRY; CAROTID ARTERY BIFURCATION; CAROTID ARTERY FLOW; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; HUMAN; KERNEL METHOD; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHASE CONTRAST NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SIMULATION;

ALGORITHMS; AORTA; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CAROTID ARTERIES; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MONTE CARLO METHOD; RHEOLOGY;

EID: 80052166796     PISSN: 13618415     EISSN: 13618423     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.media.2011.06.002     Document Type: Article

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