Image-guided transapical aortic valve implantation: Sensorless tracking of stenotic valve landmarks in live fluoroscopic images

Innovations: Technology and Techniques in Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgery

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 231-236

  Merk, Denis R ^a,b   Karar, Mohamed Esmail ^b   Chalopin, Claire ^b   Holzhey, David ^b   Falk, Volkmar ^c   Mohr, Friedrich W ^b   Burgert, Oliver ^b  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Aortic valve; Biomedical image processing; Imageguided interventions; Minimally invasive valvular cardiac surgery; X ray fluoroscopy

Indexed keywords

AORTA VALVE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FLUOROSCOPY; HEART VALVE STENOSIS; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGING; MINIMALLY INVASIVE PROCEDURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SAFETY; TRANSCATHETER AORTIC VALVE IMPLANTATION;

EID: 80052526884     PISSN: 15569845     EISSN: 15590879     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/IMI.0b013e31822c6a77     Document Type: Article

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