Temporal resolution improvement in cardiac CT using PICCS (TRI-PICCS): Performance studies

Medical Physics

Volumn 37, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 4377-4388

  Tang, Jie ^a   Hsieh, Jiang ^b   Chen, Guang Hong ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b GE HEALTHCARE   (United States)

Author keywords

cardiac CT; image reconstruction; temporal resolution

Indexed keywords

HEART; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION;

CARDIAC CT; CHANGE ORIENTATIONS; CORONARY ARTERIES; FILTERED BACK-PROJECTION METHODS; IMAGE DISTORTIONS; PERFORMANCE STUDY; SIGNAL INTENSITIES; TEMPORAL RESOLUTION;

MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY;

ALGORITHM; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; IMAGE QUALITY; METHODOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ALGORITHMS; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 78149484685     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3460318     Document Type: Article

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