Intracranial CT angiography obtained from a cerebral CT perfusion examination

Medical Physics

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 1074-1085

  Gratama Van Andel, H A F ^a   Venema, H W ^a   Majoie, C B ^a   Den Heeten, G J ^a   Grimbergen, C A ^a   Streekstra, G J ^a  

^a ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANGIOGRAPHY; BRAIN; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; TIME SERIES;

AUTOMATIC DIFFERENTIATIONS; CEREBRAL BLOOD FLOW; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTRAST TO NOISE RATIO; IMAGE COMBINATION; MAXIMUM INTENSITY PROJECTION; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGES; WEIGHTED AVERAGING;

IMAGE ENHANCEMENT;

ARTICLE; BRAIN PERFUSION; BRAIN VEIN; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; NEUROIMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; VISUAL MASKING;

ALGORITHMS; AUTOMATION; BONE AND BONES; BRAIN; CEREBRAL ANGIOGRAPHY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PERFUSION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TIME FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; VEINS;

EID: 63849162360     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3078043     Document Type: Article

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