Quantification of iron in the presence of calcium with dual-energy computed tomography (DECT) in an ex vivo porcine plaque model

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 56, Issue 22, 2011, Pages 7305-7316

  Wang, Jia ^a   Garg, Nitin ^a   Duan, Xinhui ^a   Liu, Yu ^a   Leng, Shuai ^a   Yu, Lifeng ^a   Ritman, Erik L ^b   Kantor, Birgit ^a   McCollough, Cynthia H ^a  

^a MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

^b MAYO GRADUATE SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM CONCENTRATION; CAROTID ARTERY; CO-EXISTENCE; CO-EXISTING; COLOCALIZATION; CT IMAGE; DUAL-ENERGY COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; DUAL-ENERGY CT; EX-VIVO; HISTOLOGICAL ANALYSIS; HISTOLOGICAL SECTION; MASS FRACTION; MATERIAL DECOMPOSITION; MIXTURE SOLUTION; VESSEL WALLS;

ALGORITHMS; CALCIUM; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; IRON; MIXTURES; SCANNING; TOMOGRAPHY;

IRON DEPOSITS;

CALCIUM; IRON;

ALGORITHM; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROTIC PLAQUE; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DISEASE MODEL; FEASIBILITY STUDY; IMAGE QUALITY; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; RADIOGRAPHY; SWINE;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; CALCIUM; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; IRON; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; PLAQUE, ATHEROSCLEROTIC; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SWINE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 80155130444     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/56/22/019     Document Type: Article

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