Effect of x-ray tube current on the accuracy of cerebral perfusion parameters obtained by CT perfusion studies

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 50, Issue 21, 2005, Pages 5019-5029

  Murase, Kenya ^a   Nanjo, Takafumi ^a   Ii, Satoshi ^a   Miyazaki, Shohei ^a   Hirata, Masaaki ^b   Sugawara, Yoshifumi ^b   Kudo, Masayuki ^c   Sasaki, Kousuke ^c   Mochizuki, Teruhito ^b  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b EHIME UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^c GE Yokogawa Medical Systems   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLOOD; BRAIN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DETECTORS; ELECTRIC CURRENTS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MEDICAL IMAGING;

CEREBRAL BLOOD VOLUME (CBV); CEREBRAL PERFUSION PARAMETERS; NOISE SIMULATION; SIMULATED IMAGE;

X RAY TUBES;

ARTICLE; BRAIN BLOOD VOLUME; BRAIN PERFUSION; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGING SYSTEM; NOISE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; X RAY;

AGED; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BRAIN; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; CEREBROVASCULAR DISORDERS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTRAST MEDIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERFUSION; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TIME FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY SCANNERS, X-RAY COMPUTED; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; WATER; X-RAYS;

EID: 27144542679     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 00319155     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/50/21/005     Document Type: Article

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