Medical Engineering & Physics
Volume 29, Issue 6 , Pages 677-690 , July 2007

Robust measures of three-dimensional vascular tortuosity based on the minimum curvature of approximating polynomial spline fits to the vessel mid-line

  • Michael J. Johnson

      Affiliations

    • Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Faculty of Science, P.O. Box 5969, Safat 13060, Kuwait
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  • Geoff Dougherty

      Affiliations

    • Applied Physics, California State University Channel Islands, Camarillo, CA 93012, USA
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +1 805 437 8990; fax: +1 805 437 2765.

Received 15 January 2006 ,Revised 9 July 2006 ,Accepted 17 July 2006.

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PII: S1350-4533(06)00165-2

doi: 10.1016/j.medengphy.2006.07.008

Medical Engineering & Physics
Volume 29, Issue 6 , Pages 677-690 , July 2007

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