Flat-panel-detector-based volumetric CT: performance evaluation of imaging for skeletal structures of small animals in comparison to multislice CT

Clinical Imaging

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 18-22

  Obenauer, Silvia ^a   Dullin, Christian ^a   Alves, Frauke ^a   Missbach Guentner, Jeannine ^a   Grabbe, Eckhardt ^a   Heuser, Markus ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Flat panel detector CT; Multislice CT; Skeletal structures; Volumetric CT

Indexed keywords

AMORPHOUS SILICON; DATA REDUCTION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; MEDICAL IMAGING; PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

FLAT PANEL DETECTOR CT; MULTISLICE CT; SKELETAL STRUCTURES; VOLUMETRIC CT;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

CESIUM; SILICON;

ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; BONE STRUCTURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FLAT PANEL DETECTOR BASED VOLUMETRIC COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE DISPLAY; IMAGE INTENSIFIER; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGING; IMAGING SYSTEM; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAXIMUM INTENSITY PROJECTION; MOUSE; MULTIPLANAR RECONSTRUCTION; MULTISLICE COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCORING SYSTEM; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL DETECTION; SKELETON; SKULL; VOLUME RENDERING TECHNIQUE;

ANATOMY, CROSS-SECTIONAL; ANIMALS; BONE AND BONES; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MICE; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; WHOLE BODY IMAGING; X-RAY INTENSIFYING SCREENS;

EID: 33845670071     PISSN: 08997071     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clinimag.2006.09.029     Document Type: Article

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