Curved-slab maximum intensity projection: Method and evaluation

Radiology

Volumn 229, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 255-260

  Raman, Raghav ^a   Napel, Sandy ^a   Rubin, Geoffrey D ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Angiography; Computed tomography (CT); Maximum intensity projection

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL AORTA ANEURYSM; ADULT; AGED; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BONE; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MALE; METHODOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOFT TISSUE;

AGED; ALGORITHMS; ANGIOGRAPHY; AORTIC ANEURYSM, ABDOMINAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0141853022     PISSN: 00338419     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/radiol.2291020370     Document Type: Article

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