Image quality of high-resolution CT with 16-channel multidetector-row CT: Comparison between helical scan and conventional step-shoot scan

Radiation Medicine - Medical Imaging and Radiation Oncology

Volumn 23, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 539-544

  Sumikawa, Hiromitsu ^a   Johkoh, Takeshi ^a   Koyama, Mitsuhiro ^c   Kozuka, Takenori ^b   Ikemoto, Minako ^a   Inoue, Atsuo ^a   Murai, Sachiko ^a   Tsubamoto, Mitsuko ^a   Honda, Osamu ^a   Tomiyama, Noriyuki ^a   Hamada, Seiki ^a   Nakamura, Hironobu ^a   Narita, Hiroaki ^d  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b OSAKA POLICE HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^c National Kinki Chuo Hospital for Chest Disease   (Japan)

^d PHILIPS HEALTHCARE   (United States)

Author keywords

Diffuse lung disease; High resolution computed tomography; Lung; Multidetector row computed tomography

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; HIGH RESOLUTION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LUNG DISEASE; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; SPIRAL COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; VOLUMETRY;

CADAVER; HUMANS; LUNG; LUNG DISEASES; OBSERVER VARIATION; TOMOGRAPHY, SPIRAL COMPUTED; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 31444437390     PISSN: 02882043     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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