Effects of window and threshold levels on the accuracy of three-dimensional rendering techniques in coronary artery electron-beam CT angiography

Academic Radiology

Volumn 8, Issue 8, 2001, Pages 754-761

  Lu, Bin ^a,d   Dai, Ru ping ^a   Jiang, Shi liang ^a   Bai, Hua ^a   He, Sha ^a   Zhuang, Nan ^a   Sun, Xiao gang ^b   Budoff, Matthew J ^c  

^a PEKING UNION MEDICAL COLLEGE   (China)

^b FUWAI HOSPITAL   (China)

^c HARBOR UCLA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d St John's Cardiovascular Research Center   (United States)

Author keywords

Computed tomography (CT), electron beam; Computed tomography (CT), image processing; Coronary vessels, CT

Indexed keywords

IOPROMIDE;

ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTERY DIAMETER; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY; CORRELATION FUNCTION; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; ELECTRON BEAM TOMOGRAPHY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SWINE; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

EID: 0034883727     PISSN: 10766332     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1076-6332(03)80582-2     Document Type: Article

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