High-resolution ex vivo imaging of coronary artery stents using 64-slice computed tomography - Initial experience

European Radiology

Volumn 16, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 1564-1569

  Rist, Carsten ^a   Nikolaou, Konstantin ^a   Flohr, Thomas ^b   Wintersperger, Bernd J ^a   Reiser, Maximilian F ^a   Becker, Christoph R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b CT Division   (Germany)

Author keywords

Artefacts; Coronary artery; Multislice CT; Stents

Indexed keywords

IODINATED CONTRAST MEDIUM;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY; CORONARY STENT; DENSITY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; EX VIVO STUDY; HEART; HIGH RESOLUTION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SWINE; TISSUE SLICE;

ANIMALS; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY VESSELS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; PILOT PROJECTS; STENTS; SWINE; TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT, BIOMEDICAL; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 33745025950     PISSN: 09387994     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00330-006-0186-5     Document Type: Article

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