Automated bone removal in CT angiography: Comparison of methods based on single energy and dual energy scans

Medical Physics

Volumn 38, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 6128-6137

  Van Straten, Marcel ^a   Schaap, Michiel ^a   Dijkshoorn, Marcel L ^a   Greuter, Marcel J ^b   Van Der Lugt, Aad ^a   Krestin, Gabriel P ^a   Niessen, Wiro J ^a  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

bone removal; dual energy CT; dual source CT; optimization; x ray CT angiography

Indexed keywords

ANGIOGRAPHY; IMAGE QUALITY; IODINE; OPTIMIZATION; PHANTOMS; QUALITY CONTROL; TIN; X RAY TUBES; X RAYS;

BONE REMOVAL; COMPARISON OF METHODS; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY ANGIOGRAPHY; CONTRAST TO NOISE RATIO; DUAL-ENERGY CT; DUAL-SOURCE CT; QUANTITATIVE AND QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; X-RAY CT;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 80855156801     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3651475     Document Type: Article

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