Multidetector CT angiography in the follow-up of patients treated with renal artery stents: Value of different reformation techniques compared with axial source images

Journal of Endovascular Therapy

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 387-394

  Puchner, Stefan ^a   Stadler, Alfred ^a   Minar, Erich ^a   Lammer, Johannes ^a   Bucek, Robert A ^a,b  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b Department of Cardiovascular and Interventional Radiology ^*  (Austria)

Author keywords

Axial images; Curved planar reformations; Multidetector CTA; Multiplanar reformations; Renal artery; Stenosis; Stent; Virtual angioscopy; Volume rendering threshold

Indexed keywords

IOVERSOL;

ADULT; AGED; ANGIOSCOPY; APPARATUS; ARTIFACT; AXIAL SOURCE IMAGE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CURVED PLANAR REFORMATION TECHNIQUE; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGING SYSTEM; KIDNEY ARTERY STENOSIS; MALE; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; MULTIPLANAR REFORMATION TECHNIQUE; OBSERVER VARIATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RENAL ARTERY; REVIEW; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STANDARD; STENT; VIRTUAL ANGIOSCOPY; VOLUME RENDERING THRESHOLD TECHNIQUE;

AGED; ANGIOGRAPHY; ANGIOPLASTY, BALLOON; ARTIFACTS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBSERVER VARIATION; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RENAL ARTERY; RENAL ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RESEARCH DESIGN; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STENTS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 34447321061     PISSN: 15266028     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1583/06-1970.1     Document Type: Review

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