A quantitative vascular analysis system for evaluation of atherosclerotic lesions by MRI

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 2208, Issue , 2001, Pages 786-794

  Kerwin, William ^a   Han, Chao ^a   Chu, Baocheng ^a   Xu, Dongxiang ^a   Luo, Ying ^a   Hwang, Jenq Neng ^a   Hatsukami, Thomas ^a   Yuan, Chun ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MEDICAL COMPUTING;

ATHEROSCLEROTIC LESIONS; CAROTID ARTERY; IN-VIVO; INTERACTIVE IDENTIFICATION; THREE-DIMENSIONAL DISPLAY; VASCULAR ANALYSIS;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

EID: 84958170369     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/3-540-45468-3_94     Document Type: Conference Paper

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