Relative value of sliding-thin-slab multiplanar reformations and sliding-thin-slab maximum intensity projections as reformatting techniques in multisection CT angiography of the cervicocranial vessels

American Journal of Neuroradiology

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 107-113

  Ertl Wagner, B B ^a   Bruening, R ^b   Blume, J ^c   Hoffmann, R T ^a   Mueller Schunk, S ^b   Snyder, B ^c   Reiser, M F ^a  

^a LUDWIG MAXIMILIANS UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^c BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGING; MALE; MANTEL HAENSZEL TEST; VASCULARIZATION; AGED; ANGIOGRAPHY; BRAIN ANGIOGRAPHY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; IMAGE PROCESSING; METHODOLOGY; NECK;

AGED; ANGIOGRAPHY; CEREBRAL ANGIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; NECK; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 33644849602     PISSN: 01956108     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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