Method for 3D Airway Topology Extraction

In lungs the number of conducting airway generations as well as bifurcation patterns varies across species and shows specific characteristics relating to illnesses or gene variations. A method to characterize the topology of the mouse airway tree using scanning laser optical tomography (SLOT) tomogr...

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Main Authors: Roman Grothausmann, Manuela Kellner, Marko Heidrich, Raoul-Amadeus Lorbeer, Tammo Ripken, Heiko Meyer, Mark P. Kuehnel, Matthias Ochs, Bodo Rosenhahn
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Hindawi Limited 2015-01-01
Series:Computational and Mathematical Methods in Medicine
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/127010