Cardiac motion-corrected iterative cone-beam CT reconstruction using a semi-automatic minimum cost path-based coronary centerline extraction

Computerized Medical Imaging and Graphics

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 215-226

  Isola, A A ^a,c   Metz, C T ^c   Schaap, M ^c   Klein, S ^c   Grass, M ^b   Niessen, W J ^c,d  

^a PHILIPS RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (Netherlands)

^b PHILIPS RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (Germany)

^c ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^d DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

87.57. s; 87.57.nf; 87.57.Q ; Cardiac motion; Computed tomography; Coronary centerline extraction; Iterative reconstruction; Motion compensation

Indexed keywords

87.57.-S; 87.57.NF; 87.57.Q-; CARDIAC MOTION; CENTERLINE EXTRACTION; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; ITERATIVE RECONSTRUCTION;

BLOOD VESSELS; COSTS; HEART; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; INTERPOLATION; MOTION COMPENSATION; MOTION ESTIMATION;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CARDIAC IMAGING; CASE REPORT; CONE BEAM COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY; HEART MOVEMENT; HUMAN; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGISTRATION; SEMI AUTOMATIC MINIMUM COST PATH BASED CORONARY CENTERLINE EXTRACTION; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHMS; CARDIAC-GATED IMAGING TECHNIQUES; CONE-BEAM COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORONARY VESSELS; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MOVEMENT; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 84858081086     PISSN: 08956111     EISSN: 18790771     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compmedimag.2011.12.005     Document Type: Article

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