Interventional 4-D C-Arm CT perfusion imaging using interleaved scanning and partial reconstruction interpolation

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 892-906

  Fieselmann, Andreas ^a,c   Ganguly, Arundhuti ^b   Deuerling Zheng, Yu ^c   Zellerhoff, Michael ^c   Rohkohl, Christopher ^c   Boese, Jan ^c   Hornegger, Joachim ^a   Fahrig, Rebecca ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c SIEMENS AG   (Germany)

Author keywords

C arm computed tomography (CT); dynamic reconstruction; perfusion imaging; stroke treatment

Indexed keywords

CEREBRAL BLOOD FLOW; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; CT PERFUSION IMAGING; DYNAMIC RECONSTRUCTION; HEALTHY TISSUES; IN-VIVO; INTERLEAVED SEQUENCE; INTERVENTIONAL; PATHOLOGICAL TISSUE; PERFUSION IMAGING; STANDARD DEVIATION; STROKE TREATMENT; TEMPORAL SAMPLING; TISSUE PERFUSION;

INTERPOLATION; ROBOTIC ARMS; STATISTICS; TISSUE;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

ANGIOGRAPHY; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BRAIN; BRAIN CIRCULATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMAGE QUALITY; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; RADIOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SCINTIGRAPHY; SWINE; VASCULARIZATION;

ANGIOGRAPHY; ANIMALS; BRAIN; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PERFUSION IMAGING; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SWINE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84859736395     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMI.2011.2181531     Document Type: Article

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