A strategy to decrease partial scan reconstruction artifacts in myocardial perfusion CT: Phantom and in vivo evaluation

Medical Physics

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 214-223

  Ramirez Giraldo, Juan C ^a,b   Yu, Lifeng ^a   Kantor, Birgit ^a   Ritman, Erik L ^b   McCollough, Cynthia H ^a  

^a Mayo Clinic   (United States)

^b MAYO GRADUATE SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

computed tomography; functional imaging; linear filters; myocardial perfusion; partial scan reconstruction artifacts

Indexed keywords

BLOOD; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; HEMODYNAMICS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; PHANTOMS; SIGNAL FILTERING AND PREDICTION;

FUNCTIONAL IMAGING; HIGH SPATIAL FREQUENCY; LINEAR FILTERS; MULTI DETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIES (MDCT); MYOCARDIAL PERFUSION; MYOCARDIAL PERFUSION IMAGING; RECONSTRUCTION ARTIFACTS; SPATIAL LINEAR FILTERS;

MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY;

ANIMALIA; SUS;

EID: 84855425143     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3665767     Document Type: Article

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