Cervical CT angiography comparing routine noncontrast and a late venous scan as masks for automated bone subtraction: Feasibility study and examination of the influence of patient motion on image quality

Investigative Radiology

Volumn 43, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 27-32

  Lell, Michael M ^a,b   Ditt, Hendrik ^c   Panknin, Christoph ^a,c   Sayre, James W ^a,d   Klotz, Ernst ^c   Ruehm, Stefan G ^a   Villablanca, J Pablo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^c SIEMENS AG   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Bone removal; Bone subtraction; Carotid artery; CT angiography; Image registration; Postprocessing

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUTOMATED BONE SUBTRACTION; BLOOD VESSEL; CERVICAL SPINE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXTERNAL CAROTID ARTERY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYOID BONE; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE SUBTRACTION; JAW; LATE VENOUS COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; MALE; NECK; NONENHANCED COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PATIENT MOBILITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPINE; VERTEBRAL ARTERY; WILCOXON SIGNED RANKS TEST;

EID: 37549048177     PISSN: 00209996     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/RLI.0b013e31815597ac     Document Type: Article

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