Dual-energy CT head bone and hard plaque removal for quantification of calcified carotid stenosis: Utility and comparison with digital subtraction angiography

European Radiology

Volumn 19, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 2060-2065

  Uotani, Kensuke ^a,b,d   Watanabe, Yoshiyuki ^a   Higashi, Masahiro ^a   Nakazawa, Tetsuro ^a   Kono, Atsushi K ^a   Hori, Yoshiro ^a   Fukuda, Tetsuya ^a   Kanzaki, Suzu ^a   Yamada, Naoaki ^a   Itoh, Toshihide ^c   Sugimura, Kazuro ^b   Naito, Hiroaki ^a  

^a NATIONAL CEREBRAL AND CARDIOVASCULAR CENTER   (Japan)

^b KOBE UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^c SIEMENS AG   (Germany)

^d NONE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Carotid plaque; Carotid stenosis; CTA; Dual energy CT; Dual source CT

Indexed keywords

CONTRAST MEDIUM;

ARTERY CALCIFICATION; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROTIC PLAQUE; CAROTID ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIGITAL SUBTRACTION ANGIOGRAPHY; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTERRATER RELIABILITY; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ANGIOGRAPHY, DIGITAL SUBTRACTION; CAROTID STENOSIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SKULL; SUBTRACTION TECHNIQUE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 67650901483     PISSN: 09387994     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00330-009-1358-x     Document Type: Article

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