AAPM/RSNA physics tutorial for residents: Physics of cardiac imaging with multiple-row detector CT

Radiographics

Volumn 27, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 1495-1509

  Mahesh, Mahadevappa ^a   Cody, Dianna D ^b  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; BIOPHYSICS; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY ATHEROSCLEROSIS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMAN; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; RADIOGRAPHY; REVIEW;

BIOPHYSICS; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERIOSCLEROSIS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMANS; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 34948891623     PISSN: 02715333     EISSN: 15271323     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/rg.275075045     Document Type: Review

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