Multiplanar reformat display technique in abdominal multidetector row CT imaging

Clinical Imaging

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 119-123

  Hong, Cheng ^a,b   Bruening, Roland ^a   Schoepf, Uwe J ^a   Bae, Kyongtae T ^a   Reiser, Maximilian F ^a  

^a LUDWIG MAXIMILIANS UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Abdomen; CT angiography; Multiplanar reformat; Postprocessing; Spiral CT

Indexed keywords

ANGIOGRAPHY; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; IMAGE QUALITY; PATIENT TREATMENT;

MULTIPLANAR REFORMAT (MPR);

MEDICAL IMAGING;

ABDOMEN; ADULT; AGED; ANGIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; MALE; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADULT; AGED; ANGIOGRAPHY; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; LIVER DISEASES; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROBABILITY; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; RADIOGRAPHY, ABDOMINAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TOMOGRAPHY, SPIRAL COMPUTED;

EID: 0037333950     PISSN: 08997071     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0899-7071(02)00490-4     Document Type: Article

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