A dynamic approach to identifying desired physiological phases for cardiac imaging using multislice spiral CT

Medical Physics

Volumn 30, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 1683-1693

  Vembara, M ^a   Garcia, M J ^b   Heuscher, D J ^a   Haberl, R ^c   Matthews, D ^a   Bohme G E ^c   Greenberg, N L ^b  

^a PHILIPS HEALTHCARE   (United States)

^b LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c Radiologisches Zentrum Muenchen Pasing   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA ACQUISITION; HEART; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; PHYSIOLOGICAL MODELS; SCANNING; VELOCITY;

INSTANTANEOUS HEART RATES; LEFT ANTERIOR DESCENDING; MOTION CHARACTERISTICS; MULTISLICE COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; NON-INVASIVE CARDIAC IMAGING; QUANTITATIVE TECHNIQUES; THREE-DIMENSIONAL VELOCITY; VOLUME RECONSTRUCTION;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CORONARY ARTERY; CORONARY ARTERY CIRCUMFLEX BRANCH; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; FEMALE; HEART CYCLE; HEART MOVEMENT; HEART RATE; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LEFT ANTERIOR DESCENDING CORONARY ARTERY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIGHT CORONARY ARTERY; SPIRAL COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 0038372103     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.1582812     Document Type: Article

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