Study of an adaptive bolus chasing CT angiography

Journal of X-Ray Science and Technology

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 27-38

  Bai, Er Wei ^a   Bennett, James R ^b   McCabe, Robert ^a   Sharafuddin, Melhem J ^b   Bai, Henri ^c   Halloran, John ^d   Vannier, Michael ^b   Liu, Ying ^e   Wang, Chenglin ^e   Wang, Ge ^b  

^a IA United States   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^c Iowa State University of Science and Technology   (United States)

^d Cedar Valley Medical Specialists ^*  (United States)

^e Controlled Cardiac CT ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Automatic control; Contrast studies; CT angiography; Nonlinear system

Indexed keywords

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROL; IMAGE QUALITY; NONLINEAR SYSTEMS; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; RADIATION EFFECTS;

BOLUS PEAK POSITION; CONTRAST STUDIES; CT ANGIOGRAPHY; IMAGING APERTURE;

ANGIOGRAPHY;

EID: 33645514127     PISSN: 08953996     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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