Evaluation of carotid artery stenosis with multisection CT and MR imaging: Influence of imaging modality and postprocessing

American Journal of Neuroradiology

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 104-110

  Lell, Michael ^a   Fellner, C ^b   Baum, U ^a   Hothorn, T ^a   Steiner, R ^a   Lang, W ^a   Bautz, W ^a   Fellner, F A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^b KEPLER UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CAROTID ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DISEASE SEVERITY; EVALUATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTERNAL CAROTID ARTERY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MALE; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SYMPTOMATOLOGY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CAROTID ARTERY, INTERNAL; CAROTID STENOSIS; CEREBRAL ANGIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBSERVER VARIATION; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, SPIRAL COMPUTED;

EID: 33846421049     PISSN: 01956108     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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