This thesis describes an environment in which two angiographic methods, Digital Subtraction Angiography (DSA) and Magnetic Resonance Angiography (MRA), can be objectively compared and analyzed. / Such an environment requires that both angiographic projections be displayed from the same view-point and with the same projection geometry. The two angiograms are displayed side by side and several points on the vascular structure are identified in both modalities. These points are used to estimate, using a Least Squares Minimization, the Homogeneous Transformation Matrix (HTM) characterizing the projection of the DSA image. The resulting HTM is used to generate a corresponding Maximum Intensity Projection (MIP) of the MRA dataset. The number and location of the required homologous point-pairs are determined empirically. / Other alternatives to MIP are presented as well, and their performance relative to DSA is discussed. Images from each modality are displayed stereoscopically to reflect the three dimensional nature of the vascular tree.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:LACETR/oai:collectionscanada.gc.ca:QMM.27484 |
| Date | January 1996 |
| Creators | Bakar, Majd. |
| Contributors | Peters, T. M. (advisor) |
| Publisher | McGill University |
| Source Sets | Library and Archives Canada ETDs Repository / Centre d'archives des thèses électroniques de Bibliothèque et Archives Canada |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Electronic Thesis or Dissertation |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Coverage | Master of Engineering (Department of Biomedical Engineering.) |
| Rights | All items in eScholarship@McGill are protected by copyright with all rights reserved unless otherwise indicated. |
| Relation | alephsysno: 001549408, proquestno: MQ29859, Theses scanned by UMI/ProQuest. |
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