GI tract unraveling by spiral CT

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 2434, Issue , 1995, Pages 307-315

  Wang, Ge ^a   Vannier, Michael W ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

GI tract; Helical CT; Spiral CT; Unraveling

Indexed keywords

MEDICAL IMAGE PROCESSING; PHANTOMS;

CURVILINEAR STRUCTURES; GI TRACT; HELICAL CT; K L TRANSFORM; LOCAL ORIENTATIONS; PRINCIPAL EIGEN-VECTOR; SPIRAL CT; UNRAVELING;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 85076691636     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: 1996756X     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.208702     Document Type: Conference Paper

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