Optimized radiographic spectra for small animal digital subtraction angiography

Medical Physics

Volumn 33, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 4249-4257

  De Lin, Ming ^a   Samei, Ehsan ^b   Badea, Cristian T ^a   Yoshizumi, Terry T ^a   Johnson, G Allan ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Contrast; Digital subtraction angiography; Functional imaging; Rodent; Small animal; SNR; Spectra optimization; X ray

Indexed keywords

ANGIOGRAPHY; ANIMALS; IMAGE RESOLUTION; MAMMOGRAPHY; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; X RAYS;

CONTRAST; DIGITAL SUBTRACTION ANGIOGRAPHY; FUNCTIONAL IMAGING; RODENT; SMALL ANIMAL; SPECTRA OPTIMIZATION;

X RAY RADIOGRAPHY;

MOLYBDENUM;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; DIGITAL SUBTRACTION ANGIOGRAPHY; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; IMAGE QUALITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SPECTROSCOPY;

ANIMALIA; RODENTIA;

EID: 33750568639     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.2356646     Document Type: Article

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