Image Quality of the Aortic and Mitral Valve With CT:. Relative Versus Absolute Delay Reconstruction

Academic Radiology

Volumn 14, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 613-624

  Boehm, Thomas ^a,b   Husmann, Lars ^a   Leschka, Sebastian ^a   Desbiolles, Lotus ^a   Marincek, Borut ^a   Alkadhi, Hatem ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b KANTONSSPITAL GRAUBÜNDEN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

aortic value; Cardiac CT; mitral value; reconstruction technique

Indexed keywords

CONTRAST MEDIUM;

ADULT; AGED; AORTA VALVE; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; BREATHING RATE; CALCIFICATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HEART RATE VARIABILITY; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; MITRAL VALVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; RADIATION EXPOSURE;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALGORITHMS; AORTIC VALVE; ARTIFACTS; CONTRAST MEDIA; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MITRAL VALVE; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TRIIODOBENZOIC ACIDS;

EID: 34147154853     PISSN: 10766332     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.acra.2007.02.002     Document Type: Article

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