A new approach to measuring tortuosity

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 8315, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Wert, Amanda ^a   Scott, Sherry E ^b  

^a BENEDICTINE COLLEGE   (United States)

^b MARQUETTE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Ergodicity; MRA; Tortuosity; Vessels; Wavelets

Indexed keywords

ERGODICITY; MRA; TORTUOSITY; VESSELS; WAVELETS;

COMPUTER AIDED DIAGNOSIS; DEFECTS; MEDICAL IMAGING;

SIGNAL DETECTION;

EID: 84874839331     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.912416     Document Type: Conference Paper

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