New challenges in MDCT

European Radiology, Supplement

Volumn 15, Issue 5, 2005, Pages

  Prokop, Mathias ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

CT technology; Flying focal; Multidetector CT; Radiation dose; Spatial resolution; image noise

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; DATA ANALYSIS; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART DISEASE; HEART PERFUSION; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGING; MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; NOISE REDUCTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION BEAM; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION SCATTERING; ROTATION; VELOCITY;

CONTRAST MEDIA; HUMANS; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 33644610314     PISSN: 16133749     EISSN: 16133757     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10406-005-0164-z     Document Type: Article

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