Cardiac CT: How much can temporal resolution, spatial resolution, and volume coverage be improved?

Journal of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 143-152

  Flohr, Thomas G ^a,b   Raupach, Rainer ^a   Bruder, Herbert ^a  

^a SIEMENS AG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cardiac CT; Dual source CT; Multidetector row CT; Spatial resolution; Temporal resolution; Volume coverage

Indexed keywords

ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; HEART; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; OPTICAL RESOLUTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW;

CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; HUMANS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 67149089294     PISSN: 19345925     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcct.2009.04.004     Document Type: Review

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