Figure 6

Validation studies using the femoral artery IVUS data. (A) Intermediary cross-sectional slice images of the vascular phantom using the conventional pixel-based interpolation (top) and the shape-based nonlinear interpolation methods (bottom). (B) Intermediary IVUS slice images of the femoral arterial segment: the conventional pixel-based interpolation method (top) and the shape-based nonlinear interpolation method (bottom).