Fast plaque burden assessment of the femoral artery using 3D black-blood MRI and automated segmentation

Medical Physics

Volumn 38, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 5370-5384

  Chiu, Bernard ^a,b   Sun, Jie ^b   Zhao, Xihai ^b,c   Wang, Jinnan ^d   Balu, Niranjan ^b   Chi, Jiachang ^e   Xu, Jianrong ^e   Yuan, Chun ^b   Kerwin, William S ^b  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d PHILIPS RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (Netherlands)

^e SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

2D slice based segmentation; 3D MERGE; curve planar reformation (CPR); femoral artery; peripheral arterial disease (PAD)

Indexed keywords

BLOOD; IMAGE ACQUISITION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING;

2-D SLICE; CURVE PLANAR REFORMATION (CPR); CURVED PLANAR REFORMATION; FEMORAL ARTERY; GRADIENT ECHO SEQUENCES; PERIPHERAL ARTERIAL DISEASE; ROOT-MEAN-SQUARE ERRORS; SEMI-AUTOMATED SEGMENTATION;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

EID: 80053595285     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3633899     Document Type: Article

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