Optimized image reconstruction for detection of deep venous thrombosis at multidetector-row CT venography

European Radiology

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 269-275

  Das, Marco ^a   Mühlenbruch, Georg ^a   Mahnken, Andreas Horst ^a   Weiß, Claudia ^b   Schoepf, U Joseph ^c   Leidecker, Christianne ^d   Günther, Rolf W ^a   Wildberger, Joachim Ernst ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL RWTH AACHEN   (Germany)

^b RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Computed tomography; Indirect venography; Sequential; Spiral dose

Indexed keywords

IOPROMIDE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGING SYSTEM; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LUNG EMBOLISM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PHLEBOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RATING SCALE; SPIRAL COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALGORITHMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHLEBOGRAPHY; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PULMONARY EMBOLISM; RADIATION DOSAGE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT, BIOMEDICAL; TOMOGRAPHY, SPIRAL COMPUTED; VENOUS THROMBOSIS;

EID: 31444440792     PISSN: 09387994     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00330-005-2868-9     Document Type: Article

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