Coronary Artery Stents in Multislice Computed Tomography: In Vitro Artifact Evaluation

Investigative Radiology

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 27-33

  Mahnken, Andreas H ^a,b   Buecker, Arno ^a   Wildberger, Joachim E ^a   Ruebben, Alexander ^a   Stanzel, Sven ^a   Vogt, Felix ^a   Günther, Rolf W ^a   Blindt, Rüdiger ^a  

^a RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL RWTH AACHEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Artifacts; CT angiography; Multislice CT; Stents

Indexed keywords

GOLD;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER; CORONARY STENT; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IN VITRO STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPIRAL COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 0347419480     PISSN: 00209996     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.rli.0000095471.91575.18     Document Type: Article

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