Advances in cardiac imaging with 16-section CT systems

Academic Radiology

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 386-401

  Flohr, Thomas G ^a   Schoepf, U Joseph ^b   Kuettner, Axel ^c   Halliburton, Sandra ^d   Bruder, Herbert ^a   Suess, Christoph ^a   Schmidt, Bernhard ^a   Hofmann, Lars ^b   Yucel, Edgar Kent ^b   Schaller, Stefan ^a   Ohnesorge, Bernd M ^a  

^a SIEMENS AG   (Germany)

^b BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^d LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Computed tomography (CT), helical; Computed tomography (CT), multi detector row; Coronary vessels, CT; Heart, CT

Indexed keywords

ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DOSE RESPONSE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART SCINTISCANNING; HEART VOLUME; HIGH RESOLUTION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROTATION; SIMULATION; SPIRAL COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 0242585341     PISSN: 10766332     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1076-6332(03)80027-2     Document Type: Article

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