Technical considerations for lower limb multidetector computed tomographic angiography

Vascular Medicine

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 131-143

  Keeling, Aoife N ^a   Farrelly, Cormac ^a   Carr, James C ^a   Yaghmai, Vahid ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

CT angiography; multidetector computed tomography; peripheral artery disease; techniques

Indexed keywords

CONTRAST MEDIUM; IODINE;

ARTERY; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; DIGITAL SUBTRACTION ANGIOGRAPHY; DISEASE SEVERITY; ENDOVASCULAR SURGERY; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; INJECTION; LEG; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MAXIMUM INTENSITY PROJECTION; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY ANGIOGRAPHY; MULTIPLANAR RECONSTRUCTION; NON INVASIVE PROCEDURE; NONHUMAN; PERCUTANEOUS TRANSLUMINAL ANGIOPLASTY; PERIPHERAL OCCLUSIVE ARTERY DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION ATTENUATION; RADIATION DOSE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

ANGIOGRAPHY; ANGIOGRAPHY, DIGITAL SUBTRACTION; CONTRAST MEDIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEG; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MALE; PERIPHERAL ARTERIAL DISEASE; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TECHNOLOGY, RADIOLOGIC; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 79955436767     PISSN: 1358863X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1358863X10388347     Document Type: Article

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