Automatic phase determination for retrospectively gated cardiac CT

Medical Physics

Volumn 31, Issue 12, 2004, Pages 3345-3362

  Manzke, R ^a,b   Kohler Th ^a   Nielsen, T ^a   Hawkes, D ^b   Grass, M ^a  

^a PHILIPS RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (Germany)

^b GUY S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Anatomy specific gating; Cardiac computed tomography; Patient specific phase point determination

Indexed keywords

ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART; HOSPITAL DATA PROCESSING;

ANATOMY-SPECIFIC GATING; CARDIAC-COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONE-BEAM RECONSTRUCTION ALGORITHMS; HIGH SPATIAL RESOLUTION; HIGH-RESOLUTION RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGE-BASED TECHNIQUES; PHASE POINTS; TEMPORAL RESOLUTION;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; CASE REPORT; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; HEART CYCLE; HEART RATE; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

EID: 4444324085     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.1791351     Document Type: Article

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