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IEEE Spectrum
CPR: curved planar reformation
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Vessel Extractio Techniques and Algorithms: A Survey
BIBE '03 Proceedings of the 3rd IEEE Symposium on BioInformatics and BioEngineering
Comparative Flow Visualization
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics
The VesselGlyph: Focus & Context Visualization in CT-Angiography
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Advanced Curved Planar Reformation: Flattening of Vascular Structures
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Volumetric Curved Planar Reformation for Virtual Endoscopy
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics
Ray casting of multiple volumetric datasets with polyhedral boundaries on manycore GPUs
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Multimodal Vessel Visualization of Mouse Aorta PET/CT Scans
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics
Curve-Centric Volume Reformation for Comparative Visualization
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics
Exploration of 4D MRI Blood Flow using Stylistic Visualization
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics
Articulated Planar Reformation for Change Visualization in Small Animal Imaging
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics
Evaluation of Artery Visualizations for Heart Disease Diagnosis
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics
Context Preserving Maps of Tubular Structures
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics
Straightening Tubular Flow for Side-by-Side Visualization
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics
Harmonic skeleton guided evaluation of stenoses in human coronary arteries
MICCAI'05 Proceedings of the 8th international conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention - Volume Part I
Unfolding of virtual endoscopy using ray-template
ISBMDA'05 Proceedings of the 6th International conference on Biological and Medical Data Analysis
Model-free surface visualization of vascular trees
EUROVIS'07 Proceedings of the 9th Joint Eurographics / IEEE VGTC conference on Visualization
Accuracy evaluation of different centerline approximations of blood vessels
VISSYM'04 Proceedings of the Sixth Joint Eurographics - IEEE TCVG conference on Visualization
Fused multi-volume DVR using binary space partitioning
EuroVis'09 Proceedings of the 11th Eurographics / IEEE - VGTC conference on Visualization
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Cardiovascular diseases are the main cause of death in the western world. Medical research on atherosclerosis is therefore of great interest and a very active research topic. We present a visualization system that supports scientists in exploring plaque development and evaluating the applicability of PET tracers for early diagnosis of cardiovascular diseases. In our application case a cone shaped cuff has been implanted around the carotid artery of ApoE knockout mice, fed with a high cholesterol western type diet. As a result, vascular lesions develop upstream and downstream from the cuff. Tracer uptake induced by these lesions needs to be analyzed in order to evaluate the effectiveness of different PET tracers. We discuss the approach previously utilized to perform this kind of analysis, the problems arising from in vivo image acquisition (in contrast to ex vivo) and the design process of our application. In close cooperation with domain experts we have developed new visualization techniques that display PET activity in the vessel wall and surrounding tissue in a single image. We use the vessel wall detected in the CT image to perform a normalized circular projection which allows the user to judge PET signal distribution in relation to the deformed vessel. Based on this projection a quantitative analysis of a defined region adjacent to the vessel wall can be performed and compared to the artery without the cuff.