PT Chapter
AU Misael Rosales
   Petia Radeva
   Oriol Rodriguez
   Debora Gil
TI Suppression of IVUS Image Rotation. A Kinematic Approach
BT Functional Imaging and Modeling of the Heart
PY 2005
BP 889
EP 892
VL 3504
DI http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/11494621_36
AB IntraVascular Ultrasound (IVUS) is an exploratory technique used in interventional procedures that shows cross section images of arteries and provides qualitative information about the causes and severity of the arterial lumen narrowing. Cross section analysis as well as visualization of plaque extension in a vessel segment during the catheter imaging pullback are the technique main advantages. However, IVUS sequence exhibits a periodic rotation artifact that makes difficult the longitudinal lesion inspection and hinders any segmentation algorithm. In this paper we propose a new kinematic method to estimate and remove the image rotation of IVUS images sequences. Results on several IVUS sequences show good results and prompt some of the clinical applications to vessel dynamics study, and relation to vessel pathology.
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