Multidetector CTA in the quantification of internal carotid artery stenosis: Value of different reformation techniques and axial source images compared with selective carotid arteriography

Journal of Endovascular Therapy

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 336-342

  Puchner, Stefan ^a   Popovic, Martin ^a   Wolf, Florian ^a   Reiter, Markus ^a   Lammer, Johannes ^a   Bucek, Robert A ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Angiography; Carotid artery; Computed tomographic angiography; Reformations; Stenosis; Virtual angioscopy; Volume rendering

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANGIOSCOPY; ARTICLE; CAROTID ARTERIOGRAPHY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; CURVED PLANAR REFORMATION; FEMALE; HEMODYNAMIC MONITORING; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INTERNAL CAROTID ARTERY OCCLUSION; MALE; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; MULTIPLANAR REFORMATION; OBSERVER VARIATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; VIRTUAL ANGIOSCOPY; VOLUME RENDERING THRESHOLD;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANGIOGRAPHY; ANGIOSCOPY; CAROTID ARTERY, INTERNAL; CAROTID STENOSIS; COHORT STUDIES; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBSERVER VARIATION; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 68549083497     PISSN: 15266028     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1583/08-2636.1     Document Type: Article

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