Object-based 3-D reconstruction of arterial trees from magnetic resonance angiograms.
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Abstract
By exploiting a priori knowledge of arterial shape and smoothness, subpixel accuracy reconstructions are achieved from only four noisy projection images. The method incorporates a priori knowledge of the structure of branching arteries into a natural optimality criterion that encompasses the entire arterial tree. An efficient optimization algorithm for object estimation is presented, and its performance on simulated, phantom, and in vivo magnetic resonance angiograms is demonstrated. It is shown that accurate reconstruction of bifurcations is achievable with parametric models.