Image quality of volume rendering of the bronchial tree: Kymogram-gated versus retrospectively ECG-gated and non-gated multi-row detector CT

Academic Radiology

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 173-181

  Boehm, Thomas ^a   Alkadhi, Hatem ^b   Sennst, Dirk Alexander ^c   Schertler, Thomas ^b   Kachelriess, M ^c   Kalender, Willi ^c   Marincek, Borut ^b   Wildermuth, Simon ^b  

^a Spitaler Chur AG   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bronchial tree; Computed tomography (CT); Kymogram gated reconstruction; Volume rendering (VR)

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BRONCHUS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIASTOLE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROKYMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART CYCLE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; LUNG PARENCHYMA; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

EID: 13944279576     PISSN: 10766332     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.acra.2004.11.022     Document Type: Article

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