Effect of the reconstruction window obtained at the isovolumic relaxation period on the image quality in electrocardiographic-gated 16-multidetector-row computed tomography coronary angiography studies

Journal of Computer Assisted Tomography

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 258-261

  Kantarci, Mecit ^a,b   Ceviz, Naci ^a   Durur, Irmak ^a   Bayraktutan, Ummugulsum ^a   Karaman, Adem ^a   Alper, Fatih ^a   Onbas, Omer ^a   Okur, Adnan ^a  

^a ATATURK UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b NONE   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Coronary angiography; Multidetector computed tomography; Period of isovolumic relaxation; Step artifact

Indexed keywords

ANGIOGRAPHY; BLOOD VESSELS; DISEASES; HEART; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; QUALITY CONTROL;

BREATH-HOLD; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCAN; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNERS; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERIES; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; ISOVOLUMIC RELAXATION; MULTIDETECTOR ROW COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PERIOD OF ISOVOLUMIC RELAXATION; STEP ARTIFACT;

IMAGE QUALITY;

ADULT; AGED; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; BREATH HOLDING; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DEVICE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART CYCLE; HEART VENTRICLE VOLUME; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; OBSERVER VARIATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOLOGIST; RIGHT CORONARY ARTERY;

EID: 33646678671     PISSN: 03638715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00004728-200603000-00017     Document Type: Article

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