Medical Engineering & Physics
Volume 30, Issue 2 , Pages 190-198 , March 2008

Clinical validation of three-dimensional tortuosity metrics based on the minimum curvature of approximating polynomial splines

  • 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.
    • ,
  • Michael J. Johnson

      Affiliations

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

Received 5 August 2006 ,Revised 22 February 2007 ,Accepted 24 February 2007.

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doi: 10.1016/j.medengphy.2007.02.009

Medical Engineering & Physics
Volume 30, Issue 2 , Pages 190-198 , March 2008

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