Initial results on visualization of coronary artery stents at multiple heart rates on a moving heart phantom using 64-MDCT

Journal of Computer Assisted Tomography

Volumn 30, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 812-817

  Groen, Jaap M ^a   Greuter, Marcel J W ^a   Van Ooijen, Peter M A ^a   Willems, Tineke P ^a   Oudkerk, Matthijs ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Coronary stent; Heart phantom; Image quality; MDCT; Multi segment reconstruction

Indexed keywords

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; PHANTOMS; QUALITY CONTROL; STENTS;

CORONARY ARTERY STENT; CORONARY STENTS; DENSITY VALUE; HEART PHANTOM; HEART-RATE; MULTI-SEGMENT; MULTI-SEGMENT RECONSTRUCTION; NEGATIVE CORRELATION; PHANTOMS; ROTATION TIME;

HEART;

POLITEF; SILICON;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY; CORONARY STENT; DEVICE; HEART RATE; IMAGE QUALITY; MEASUREMENT; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOLOGIST; TECHNIQUE;

EID: 33748577674     PISSN: 03638715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.rct.0000226398.43235.6f     Document Type: Article

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