Developments in CT

Imaging

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 45-61

  Flohr, T ^a   Ohnesorge, B ^a  

^a SIEMENS AG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTER SYSTEM; CORONARY ARTERY; DOSIMETRY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTRONICS; GATED IMAGING; GENERATOR; HEART; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; SPIRAL COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; X RAY;

EID: 44649154966     PISSN: 09656812     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1259/imaging/77871954     Document Type: Article

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