Image quality of low-energy pulmonary CT angiography: Comparison with standard CT

American Journal of Roentgenology

Volumn 197, Issue 2, 2011, Pages

  Bogot, Naama R ^a,b,c   Fingerle, Alexander ^d   Shaham, Dorith ^a   Nissenbaum, Izhak ^a   Sosna, Jacob ^a,e  

^a HADASSAH HEBREW UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b SHAARE ZEDEK MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN HOSPITALS   (United States)

^d TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^e BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

CT angiography; Dual energy CT; Pulmonary embolism

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; FEMALE; HEART OUTPUT; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; LUNG EMBOLISM; MALE; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PULMONARY ARTERY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANGIOGRAPHY; CONTRAST MEDIA; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; IOHEXOL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PULMONARY ARTERY; PULMONARY EMBOLISM; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 79960707519     PISSN: 0361803X     EISSN: 15463141     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2214/AJR.10.5318     Document Type: Article

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