Multiplanar and three-dimensional imaging of the thorax

Radiologic Clinics of North America

Volumn 41, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 475-489

  Ravenel, James G ^a   McAdams, H Page ^b  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AORTA INJURY; ARTERIOVENOUS MALFORMATION; BRONCHOSCOPY; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAPHRAGM; DIAPHRAGM RUPTURE; HUMAN; HYPOPLASTIC LEFT HEART SYNDROME; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; LUNG ANGIOGRAPHY; LUNG ARTERY; LUNG DISEASE; LUNG SARCOIDOSIS; LUNG TRANSPLANTATION; LUNG VEIN; MULTIPLANAR IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATENT DUCTUS ARTERIOSUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; REVIEW; SPIRAL COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; STENT; THORACIC AORTA ANEURYSM; THORAX; THORAX WALL; THREE DIMENSIONAL HELICAL COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TRACHEOBRONCHIAL TREE; VASCULAR RING;

EID: 0038245045     PISSN: 00338389     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0033-8389(03)00032-0     Document Type: Review

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