Radiopacity of current endovascular stents: Evaluation in a multiple reader phantom study

Journal of Vascular and Interventional Radiology

Volumn 15, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 843-852

  Wiskirchen, Jakub ^a   Kraemer, Karin ^a   König, Claudius ^a   Kramer, Ulrich ^c   Trübenbach, Jochen ^a   Wersebe, Annika ^a   Tepe, Gunnar ^a   Dietz, Klaus ^b   Claussen, Claus D ^a   Duda, Stephan H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^c NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NITINOL; STAINLESS STEEL;

ARTICLE; BACK; ENDOVASCULAR STENT; FILM; FLUORESCENCE; FLUOROSCOPY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MASS; PELVIS; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; RADIOPACITY; SACROILIAC JOINT; SCORING SYSTEM; STENT; VISIBILITY;

EID: 4043183320     PISSN: 10510443     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.RVI.0000136985.06722.AD     Document Type: Article

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