Bone subtraction CTA for transcranial arteries: intra-individual comparison with standard CTA without bone subtraction and TOF-MRA

Clinical Radiology

Volumn 65, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 440-446

  Buerke, B ^a   Puesken, M ^a   Wittkamp, G ^a   Stehling, C ^a   Ditt, H ^b   Seidensticker, P ^c   Wessling, J ^a   Heindel, W ^a   Kloska, S P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^b SIEMENS AG   (Germany)

^c BAYER PHARMA AG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTERY CALCIFICATION; ARTICLE; BASILAR ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; BONE SUBSTRACTION COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; FALSE NEGATIVE RESULT; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTERNAL CAROTID ARTERY OCCLUSION; INTERNAL CAROTID ARTERY STENOSIS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OCCLUSIVE CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TIME OF FLIGHT MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; VERTEBRAL ARTERY STENOSIS; BRAIN ANGIOGRAPHY; BRAIN ARTERY; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIGITAL SUBTRACTION ANGIOGRAPHY; EVALUATION STUDY; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; PROCEDURES; RADIOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SKULL;

ANGIOGRAPHY, DIGITAL SUBTRACTION; CEREBRAL ANGIOGRAPHY; CEREBRAL ARTERIES; CEREBROVASCULAR DISORDERS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SKULL; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 77951937343     PISSN: 00099260     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.crad.2010.03.002     Document Type: Article

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