Detection of a coronary artery vessel wall: Performance of 0.3 mm fine-cell detector computed tomography - A phantom study

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 56, Issue 16, 2011, Pages 5235-5247

  Yamada, Minoru ^a   Jinzaki, Masahiro ^a   Tanami, Yutaka ^a   Matsumoto, Kazuhiro ^a   Ueno, Akihisa ^a   Nukui, Masatake ^b   Imai, Yasuhiro ^b   Ishihara, Yotaro ^b   Nishide, Akihiko ^b   Sasaki, Kosuke ^b   Kuribayashi, Sachio ^a  

^a KEIO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b GE HealthCare Japan   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERIES; CORONARY VESSEL; CT PROTOCOL; PHANTOM STUDIES; RADIATION DOSE; SECOND DERIVATIVES; VESSEL WALLS; WALL THICKNESS;

CELLS; CYTOLOGY; DETECTORS; DOSIMETRY; HEART; TOMOGRAPHY;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORONARY BLOOD VESSEL; HISTOLOGY; IMAGE QUALITY; INSTRUMENTATION;

CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY VESSELS; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 79961062506     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/56/16/010     Document Type: Article

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