Prospective, multireader evaluation of image quality and vascular delineation of multislice CT angiography of the brain

European Radiology

Volumn 15, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 1051-1059

  Ertl Wagner, Birgit B ^a   Bruening, Roland ^a   Blume, Jeffrey ^b   Hoffmann, Ralf Thorsten ^a   Snyder, Brad ^b   Herrmann, Karin A ^a   Reiser, Maximilian F ^a  

^a LUDWIG MAXIMILIANS UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Brain; Central nervous system; CT angiography; Multislice CT

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; BRAIN ARTERIOVENOUS MALFORMATION; BRAIN ARTERY ANEURYSM; BRAIN DISEASE; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OCCLUSIVE CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; STANDARDIZATION; STATISTICAL MODEL; VEIN OCCLUSION; WILCOXON SIGNED RANKS TEST; BRAIN ANGIOGRAPHY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; IMAGE PROCESSING; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; OBSERVER VARIATION; RADIOGRAPHY; VASCULAR DISEASE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CEREBRAL ANGIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBSERVER VARIATION; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; VASCULAR DISEASES;

EID: 22844432865     PISSN: 09387994     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00330-005-2689-x     Document Type: Article

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