Cone-beam technique for 64-MDCT of lung: Image quality comparison with stepwise (step-and-shoot) technique

American Journal of Roentgenology

Volumn 192, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 273-278

  Funama, Yoshinori ^a   Awai, Kazuo ^b   Taguchi, Katsuyuki ^c   Hatemura, Masahiro ^d   Yanaga, Yumi ^b   Shimamura, Masamichi ^a   Yamashita, Yasuyuki ^b,d  

^a KUMAMOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KUMAMOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

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

^d KUMAMOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cone beam reconstruction; Helical CT; High resolution CT; Image quality; Lung

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONE BEAM COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; EMPHYSEMA; FEMALE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; INTERSTITIAL PNEUMONIA; LUNG CANCER; LUNG DISEASE; LUNG TUBERCULOSIS; MALE; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOLOGIST; RATING SCALE;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUNG; LUNG DISEASES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, SPIRAL COMPUTED;

EID: 58149263154     PISSN: 0361803X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2214/AJR.08.1122     Document Type: Article

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