CT angiography: Basic principles and post-processing applications

Journal Belge de Radiologie

Volumn 86, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 336-340

  Salgado, R ^a   Mulkens, T ^b   Ozsarlak O ^a   De Schepper, A M ^a   Parizel, P A ^a  

^a ANTWERP UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

^b Heilig Hart Ziekenhuis   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Computed tomography (CT), angiography; Computed tomography (CT), image processing; Computed tomography (CT), three dimensional; Computed tomography (CT), volume rendering

Indexed keywords

ANGIOGRAPHY; COMPUTED TOMOGAPHY ANGIOGRAPHY; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONFERENCE PAPER; IMAGE PROCESSING; MAXIMUM INTENSITY PROJECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURFACE SHADED DISPLAY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; VOLUME RENDERING;

ANGIOGRAPHY; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; TOMOGRAPHY, SPIRAL COMPUTED; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0345871218     PISSN: 00217646     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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