How many CT detector rows are necessary to perform adequate three dimensional visualization?

European Journal of Radiology

Volumn 74, Issue 3, 2010, Pages

  Fischer, Lars ^a   Tetzlaff, Ralf ^b   Schöbinger, Max ^b   Radeleff, Boris ^a   Bruckner, Thomas ^c   Meinzer, H P ^b   Buchler M W ^a   Schemmer, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b GERMAN CANCER RESEARCH CENTER DKFZ   (Germany)

^c Institute for Medical Biometry and Informatics   (Germany)

Author keywords

3D operation planning; Liver surgery; Multi detector row CT

Indexed keywords

3-D IMAGE; 3D VISUALIZATION; COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; CT DATA; CT DETECTORS; CT SCAN; DATA SETS; HEIDELBERG; HEPATIC VEINS; IMAGING DATA; KRUSKAL; LIVER SURGERY; MULTI-DETECTOR ROW CT; OPERATION PLANNING; PORTAL VEINS; QUALITY INDICES; STATISTICAL DIFFERENCES; TECHNICAL DEVELOPMENT; TELERADIOLOGY; THREE DIMENSIONAL VISUALIZATION; TREE-BASED;

DATA VISUALIZATION; DETECTORS; LIVER; QUALITY ASSURANCE; STATISTICAL TESTS; SURGERY; THREE DIMENSIONAL; THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT; TREES (MATHEMATICS); VISUALIZATION;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

ARTICLE; BIOMEDICAL TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; HEPATIC VEIN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LIVER; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PORTAL VEIN; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RATING SCALE; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 77952879748     PISSN: 0720048X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejrad.2009.05.033     Document Type: Article

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