CPR - curved planar reformation

Author

Kanitsar, Armin ; Fleischmann, Dominik ; Wegenkittl, Rainer ; Felkel, Petr ; Gröller, Meister Eduard

Author_Institution

Inst. of Comput. Graphics & Algorithms, Vienna Univ. of Technol., Austria

fYear

2002

fDate

1-1 Nov. 2002

Firstpage

37

Lastpage

44

Abstract

Visualization of tubular structures such as blood vessels is an important topic in medical imaging. One way to display tubular structures for diagnostic purposes is to generate longitudinal cross-sections in order to show their lumen, wall, and surrounding tissue in a curved plane. This process is called curved planar reformation (CPR). We present three different methods to generate CPR images. A tube-phantom was scanned with computed tomography (CT) to illustrate the properties of the different CPR methods. Furthermore we introduce enhancements to these methods: thick-CPR, rotating-CPR and multi-path-CPR.

Keywords

blood vessels; computerised tomography; data visualisation; medical image processing; rendering (computer graphics); blood vessels; computed tomography; curved planar reformation; diagnostic purposes; image generation; longitudinal cross-sections; medical imaging; multi-path-CPR; rotating-CPR; surrounding tissue; thick-CPR; tubular structures; visualization; Biomedical imaging; Blood vessels; Chromium; Computed tomography; Computer displays; Computer graphics; Data visualization; Image generation; Magnetic resonance imaging; Radiology;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Visualization, 2002. VIS 2002. IEEE

Conference_Location

Boston, MA, USA

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7498-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/VISUAL.2002.1183754

Filename

1183754