A Novel Experimental Approach for Three-Dimensional Geometry Assessment of Calcified Human Stenotic Arteries inVitro

Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 39, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 1875-1886

  Boekhoven, Renate W ^a   Lopata, Richard G P ^a   van Sambeek, Marc R ^b   van de Vosse, Frans N ^a   Rutten, Marcel C M ^a  

^a EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b CATHARINA HOSPITAL   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Atherosclerosis; Segmentation; Ultrasonography

Indexed keywords

BLOOD VESSELS; GEOMETRY; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; ULTRASONICS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

ATHEROSCLEROSIS; ATHEROSCLEROTIC PLAQUE; CAROTID ENDARTERECTOMIES; EXPERIMENTAL APPROACHES; EXPERIMENTAL METHODS; MICROCOMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PORCINE CAROTID ARTERIES; THREE DIMENSIONAL GEOMETRY;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

ANGIOGRAPHY; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTERY OCCLUSION; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROTIC PLAQUE; CAROTID ARTERY; CAROTID ENDARTERECTOMY; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IN VITRO STUDY; MICRO-COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; NONHUMAN; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SWINE; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; ULTRASOUND;

ATHEROSCLEROSIS; SEGMENTATION; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; CALCINOSIS; CAROTID ARTERIES; CAROTID STENOSIS; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SWINE; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 84883458286     PISSN: 03015629     EISSN: 1879291X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ultrasmedbio.2013.03.019     Document Type: Article

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