STRUCTURED MESH GENERATION FROM DOPPLER ULTRASOUND IMAGES
Ricardo Chaves, Luísa Costa Sousa, Catarina F. Castro, Carlos Alberto Conceição António, Rosa Maria dos Santos, Pedro Castro, Elsa Irene Azevedo · Portuguese National Funding Agency for Science, Research and Technology (RCAAP Project by FCT) · 2012
Non-invasive ultrasound imaging of human arteries is a widely form used for medical diagnosis of arterial diseases, like atherosclerosis. The objective of this paper is to present a methodology for patient-specific construction of a structured mesh of the carotid artery bifurcation from images obtained with Doppler ultrasound techniques.