Technical innovation of cardiac multirow detector CT using multisector reconstruction

Computerized Medical Imaging and Graphics

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 217-226

  Horiguchi, Jun ^a   Nakanishi, Tadashi ^b   Tamura, Akihisa ^a   Ito, Katsuhide ^a   Sasaki, Kousuke ^c   Shen, Yun ^c  

^a HIROSHIMA UNIV SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b MAZDA HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^c GE Yokogawa Medical Systems   (Japan)

Author keywords

Coronary artery; Electron beam CT; Multirow detector CT; Multisector reconstruction; Retrospective reconstruction

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; IMAGE PROCESSING; SCANNING;

CARDIAC MULTIROW DETECTOR;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

ADULT; AGED; ALGORITHM; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTERY CALCIFICATION; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CORONARY ARTERY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTRON BEAM TOMOGRAPHY; ENDOSCOPY; FEMALE; HEART CYCLE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE WALL MOTION; HEART MOVEMENT; HEMODYNAMICS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; MALE; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADULT; AGED; ALGORITHMS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERIOSCLEROSIS; FEMALE; HEART; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, ANATOMIC; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0037036188     PISSN: 08956111     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0895-6111(02)00010-1     Document Type: Article

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