Technical note: Raw data-based approach to identify the optimal reconstruction phase in coronary computed tomography angiography

Journal of Computer Assisted Tomography

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 26-31

  Ertel, Dirk ^a   Pflederer, Tobias ^a   Achenbach, Stephan ^a   Kachelrie, Marc ^a   Kyriakou, Yiannis ^a   Kalender, Willi A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cardiac imaging; Kymogram; Optimal reconstruction phase; Spiral CT

Indexed keywords

ANGIOGRAPHY; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; HEART; HOSPITAL DATA PROCESSING; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE QUALITY; ITERATIVE METHODS;

CARDIAC IMAGING; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY ANGIOGRAPHY; HEART MOTION; IMAGES RECONSTRUCTION; KYMOGRAM; OPTIMAL IMAGE QUALITY; OPTIMAL RECONSTRUCTION PHASE; PATIENT SPECIFIC; SPIRAL COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIES; TECHNICAL NOTES;

IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION;

ADULT; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; DATA BASE; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATIENT CODING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VALIDATION STUDY; ALGORITHM; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; EVALUATION; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; RADIOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ALGORITHMS; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 62149135347     PISSN: 03638715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/RCT.0b013e31816c5c33     Document Type: Article

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