CT Angiography of Peripheral Arterial Bypass Grafts: Accuracy and Time-Effectiveness of Quantitative Image Analysis with an Automated Software Tool

Academic Radiology

Volumn 13, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 610-620

  Keller, Denise ^a   Wildermuth, Simon ^a   Boehm, Thomas ^a   Boskamp, Tobias ^b   Mayer, Dieter ^a   Schuster, Horst L ^a   Marincek, Borut ^a   Alkadhi, Hatem ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b FRAUNHOFER MEVIS   (Germany)

Author keywords

arterial bypass graft; automated software tool; CT angiography

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTERIOVENOUS FISTULA; ARTICLE; BYPASS SURGERY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIGITAL SUBTRACTION ANGIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GRAFT OCCLUSION; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE DISPLAY; IMAGE QUALITY; MALE; MORPHOMETRICS; OBSERVER VARIATION; PERIPHERAL ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; PERIPHERAL OCCLUSIVE ARTERY DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SAPHENOUS VEIN GRAFT; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE;

ALGORITHMS; ANGIOGRAPHY; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SAPHENOUS VEIN; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33646071502     PISSN: 10766332     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.acra.2006.01.008     Document Type: Article

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