Image fusion in dual energy computed tomography: Effect on contrast enhancement, signal-to-noise ratio and image quality in computed tomography angiography

Investigative Radiology

Volumn 44, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 1-6

  Behrendt, Florian F ^a   Schmidt, Bernhard ^b   Plumhans, Cédric ^a   Keil, Sebastian ^a   Woodruff, Seth G ^c   Ackermann, Diana ^a   Mühlenbruch, Georg ^a   Flohr, Thomas ^b   Günther, Rolf W ^a   Mahnken, Andreas H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL RWTH AACHEN   (Germany)

^b SIEMENS AG   (Germany)

^c Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology ^*

Author keywords

Contrast enhancement; Dual energy CT (DECT); Image fusion; Image quality; Signal to noise ratio (SNR)

Indexed keywords

IOPROMIDE; CONTRAST MEDIUM; DIAGNOSTIC AGENT; DRUG DERIVATIVE; IOHEXOL;

ABDOMINAL AORTA; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CELIAC ARTERY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; DUAL ENERGY COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; ILIAC ARTERY; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGING SYSTEM; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RENAL ARTERY; SCORING SYSTEM; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; ALGORITHM; ANGIOGRAPHY; AORTA ANEURYSM; AORTOGRAPHY; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE SUBTRACTION; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; RADIOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALGORITHMS; ANGIOGRAPHY; AORTIC ANEURYSM; AORTOGRAPHY; CONTRAST MEDIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IOHEXOL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SUBTRACTION TECHNIQUE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 65349110338     PISSN: 00209996     EISSN: 15360210     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/RLI.0b013e31818c3d4b     Document Type: Article

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