Lung perfused blood volume images with dual-energy computed tomography for chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension: Correlation to scintigraphy with single-photon emission computed tomography

Journal of Computer Assisted Tomography

Volumn 35, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 590-595

  Nakazawa, Tetsuro ^a   Watanabe, Yoshiyuki ^b   Hori, Yoshiro ^c   Kiso, Keisuke ^a   Higashi, Masahiro ^a   Itoh, Toshihide ^d   Naito, Hiroaki ^a  

^a NATIONAL CEREBRAL AND CARDIOVASCULAR CENTER   (Japan)

^b OSAKA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^c NIIGATA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL AND DENTAL HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^d Research and Collaboration   (Japan)

Author keywords

CT; CTEPH; dual energy; pulmonary embolism; SPECT

Indexed keywords

ANGIOGRAPHY; BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; BLOOD; BLOOD VESSELS; DEFECTS; HEMODYNAMICS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; PARTICLE BEAMS;

BLOOD VOLUMES; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; CTEPH; DUAL-ENERGY; DUAL-ENERGY COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PERFUSION DEFECTS; PULMONARY EMBOLISM; PULMONARY HYPERTENSION; SPECT; VOLUME IMAGE;

SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; BLOOD VOLUME; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LUNG ARTERY; LUNG EMBOLISM; LUNG PERFUSION; LUNG SCINTISCANNING; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY HYPERTENSION; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 80053025815     PISSN: 03638715     EISSN: 15323145     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/RCT.0b013e318224e227     Document Type: Article

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