Title :
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
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;
Conference_Titel :
Visualization, 2002. VIS 2002. IEEE
Conference_Location :
Boston, MA, USA
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-7498-3
DOI :
10.1109/VISUAL.2002.1183754
