Agreement of multislice CT angiography and MR angiography in assessing the degree of carotid artery stenosis in consideration of different methods of postprocessing

Journal of Computer Assisted Tomography

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 433-442

  Hackländer, Thomas ^a   Wegner, Holger ^a   Hoppe, Steffen ^a   Danckworth, Anne ^a   Kempkes, Udo ^a   Fischer, Marius ^a   Mertens, Heinrich ^a   Caldwell, James H ^b  

^a HELIOS KLINIKUM WUPPERTAL   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Carotid arteries; CT angiography; MR angiography; Post processing

Indexed keywords

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE;

CAROTID ARTERY; CAROTID ARTERY STENOSIS; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY ANGIOGRAPHY; CT ANGIOGRAPHY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MR ANGIOGRAPHY; MULTIPLANAR RECONSTRUCTION; POST-PROCESSING; POST-PROCESSING PROCEDURE; STENOSES;

ANGIOGRAPHY;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUTOANALYSIS; CAROTID ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIODIAGNOSIS;

EID: 33745243683     PISSN: 03638715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00004728-200605000-00014     Document Type: Article

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