New techniques in CT angiography

Radiographics

Volumn 26, Issue SPEC. ISS., 2006, Pages

  Lell, Michael M ^a,b,e   Anders, Katharina ^b   Uder, Michael ^b   Klotz, Ernst ^c   Ditt, Hendrik ^c   Vega Higuera, Fernando ^b   Boskamp, Tobias ^d   Bautz, Werner A ^b   Tomandl, Bernd F ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^c SIEMENS AG   (Germany)

^d FRAUNHOFER MEVIS   (Germany)

^e KLINIKUM BREMEN MITTE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ANGIOGRAPHY; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; REVIEW;

ALGORITHMS; ANGIOGRAPHY; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; HUMANS; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 34250705803     PISSN: 02715333     EISSN: 15271323     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/rg.26si065508     Document Type: Review

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