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For a reliable quantitative assessment of vascular lesions the three-dimensional orientations and connections have to be known accurately. This information can be extracted systematically from two DSA-projections using a digital image processing system. Automatic identification and calculation of three-dimensional coordinates of the vessel centrelines are possible at angles of 15–45° between the two projections. The knowledge of the three-dimensional coordinates allows the determination of the true length and corrected densitometric values of foreshortened vessel sections.
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Barth, K., Koch, R., Marhoff, P. (1988). Fast Automatic Recognition and 3D Reconstruction of the Coronary Tree from DSA-Projection Pairs. In: Heintzen, P.H., Bürsch, J.H. (eds) Progress in Digital Angiocardiography. Developments in Cardiovascular Medicine, vol 77. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-1331-8_18
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