Study on motion artifacts in coronary arteries with an anthropomorphic moving heart phantom on an ECG-gated multidetector computed tomography unit

European Radiology

Volumn 15, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 995-1007

  Greuter, Marcel J W ^a   Dorgelo, Joost ^a   Tukker, Wim G J ^a   Oudkerk, Matthijs ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Computed tomography image quality; Computed tomography technology; Coronary vessels

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; HEART CYCLE; HEART MOVEMENT; HEART RATE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; MOTION; PHYSICS; PHYSIOLOGY; RADIOGRAPHY; TIME;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFACTS; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART; HEART RATE; HUMANS; MODELS, CARDIOVASCULAR; MOTION; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; PHYSICS; TIME FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 22844440104     PISSN: 09387994     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00330-004-2602-z     Document Type: Article

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