Improved vessel morphology measurements in contrast-enhanced multi-detector computed tomography coronary angiography with non-linear post-processing

European Journal of Radiology

Volumn 57, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 380-383

  Ferencik, Maros ^a   Lisauskas, Jennifer B ^a   Cury, Ricardo C ^a   Hoffmann, Udo ^a   Abbara, Suhny ^a   Achenbach, Stephan ^b   Karl, W Clem ^c   Brady, Thomas J ^a   Chan, Raymond C ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^c Boston University   (United States)

Author keywords

Arteries; Arteriosclerosis; Cardiac; CT; CT angiography

Indexed keywords

ANGIOGRAPHY; BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; CARDIOLOGY; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; MORPHOLOGY;

ARTERIES; ARTERIOSCLEROSIS; CARDIAC; CT-ANGIOGRAPHY;

BLOOD VESSELS;

ADULT; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTERIOSCLEROSIS; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROTIC PLAQUE; CASE REPORT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY ATHEROSCLEROSIS; HUMAN; INTRAVASCULAR ULTRASOUND; MEASUREMENT; MORPHOLOGY; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; NOISE; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFACTS; CONTRAST MEDIA; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERIOSCLEROSIS; CORONARY VESSELS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 32844460858     PISSN: 0720048X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejrad.2005.12.024     Document Type: Article

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