Multiplanar reformat and volume rendering of a multidetector CT scan for path planning a fluoroscopic procedure on Gasserian ganglion block - A preliminary report

European Journal of Radiology

Volumn 53, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 189-191

  Horiguchi, Jun ^a   Ishifuro, Minoru ^a   Fukuda, Hiroshi ^a   Akiyama, Yuji ^a   Ito, Katsuhide ^b  

^a HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Gasserian block; Interventional procedures; Three dimensional CT

Indexed keywords

BONE; DISEASES; FLUORESCENCE; NEUROLOGY; PATIENT TREATMENT; VISUALIZATION;

ANATOMY; PREPROCEDURAL PLANNING; PUNCTURE; TRIGEMINAL NEURALGIA;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

ANATOMICAL VARIATION; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FLUOROSCOPY; GANGLION BLOCK; HEART FORAMEN OVALE; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TREATMENT INDICATION; TRIGEMINUS GANGLION; TRIGEMINUS NEURALGIA;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FEMALE; FLUOROSCOPY; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE BLOCK; RADIOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TRIGEMINAL NEURALGIA;

EID: 12444340931     PISSN: 0720048X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejrad.2004.04.009     Document Type: Article

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