Evaluation of heavily calcified vessels with coronary CT angiography: Comparison of iterative and filtered back projection image reconstruction

Radiology

Volumn 260, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 390-399

  Renker, Matthias ^a,b   Nance Jr , John W ^a   Schoepf, U Joseph ^a   O'Brien, Terrence X ^a,c   Zwerner, Peter L ^a   Meyer, Mathias ^a,d   Kerl, J Matthias ^a,b   Bauer, Ralf W ^b   Fink, Christian ^a,d   Vogl, Thomas J ^b   Henzler, Thomas ^a,d  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c RALPH H JOHNSON VA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IOPROMIDE;

ADULT; ARTERY CALCIFICATION; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT REDUCTION; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; FEMALE; FILTERED BACK PROJECTION IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; ITERATIVE IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; KRUSKAL WALLIS TEST; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MCNEMAR TEST; NOISE REDUCTION; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTIFACTS; CALCINOSIS; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CONTRAST MEDIA; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY STENOSIS; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; IOHEXOL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 79960799961     PISSN: 00338419     EISSN: 15271315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/radiol.11103574     Document Type: Article

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