Evaluation of various image reconstruction parameters in lower extremity stents using multidetector-row CT angiography: Initial findings

European Radiology

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 265-271

  Heuschmid, Martin ^a   Wiesinger, Benjamin ^a   Tepe, Gunnar ^a   Luz, Oliver ^a   Kopp, Andreas F ^a   Claussen, Claus D ^a   Duda, Stephan H ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b Jewish Hospital of Berlin   (Germany)

Author keywords

CTangiography; Digital subtraction angiography; Lower extremity; Multidetector row CT; Stent

Indexed keywords

IMERON 400; IOMEPROL; IOPROMIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVENTIONAL ANGIOGRAPHY; DIGITAL SUBTRACTION ANGIOGRAPHY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; FEMORAL ARTERY; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PERIPHERAL OCCLUSIVE ARTERY DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STENT; VASCULAR PATENCY;

AGED; ANGIOGRAPHY; ANGIOGRAPHY, DIGITAL SUBTRACTION; ARTERIAL OCCLUSIVE DISEASES; ARTIFACTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEG; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; STENTS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 33846109131     PISSN: 09387994     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00330-006-0315-1     Document Type: Article

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