Imaging processing for CT angiography of the cervicocranial arteries: Evaluation of reformatting technique;Elaborazione delle immagini angio-TC del distretto arterioso cervico-craniale: Valutazione delle tecniche di riformattazione delle immagini di tipo proiettivo e di volume

Radiologia Medica

Volumn 112, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 224-238

  Sparacia, G ^a   Bencivinni, F ^a   Banco, A ^a   Sarno, C ^a   Bartolotta, T V ^a   Lagalla, R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PALERMO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Cervicocranial arteries; CT; CT angiography

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTERY; ARTICLE; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; CERVICOCRANIAL ARTERY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE DISPLAY; IMAGE QUALITY; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; RADIOLOGIST; SLIDING THIN SLAB MAXIMUM INTENSITY PROJECTION REFORMATTING TECHNIQUE; SLIDING THIN SLAB MULTIPLANAR REFORMATTING TECHNIQUE; THREE DIMENSIONAL VOLUME RENDERING REFORMATTING TECHNIQUE;

AGED; ANGIOGRAPHY; BRAIN; CAROTID ARTERIES; CEREBRAL ANGIOGRAPHY; CEREBRAL ARTERIES; CEREBROVASCULAR DISORDERS; CERVICAL VERTEBRAE; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; VERTEBRAL ARTERY;

EID: 33947520439     PISSN: 00338362     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11547-007-0137-5     Document Type: Article

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