Coronary Artery Stent Evaluation by Combining Iterative Reconstruction and High-resolution Kernel at Coronary CT Angiography

Academic Radiology

Volumn 19, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 1324-1331

  Funama, Yoshinori ^a   Oda, Seitaro ^b   Utsunomiya, Daisuke ^b   Taguchi, Katsuyuki ^c   Shimonobo, Toshiaki ^d   Yamashita, Yasuyuki ^b   Awai, Kazuo ^e  

^a KUMAMOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KUMAMOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d KUMAMOTO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^e HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Computed tomography coronary angiography; Image noise; Iterative reconstruction; Reconstruction kernel; Stent

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY STENT; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; FILTERED BACK PROJECTION; HEART MOVEMENT; HEART RATE; HIGH RESOLUTION RECONSTRUCTION KERNEL; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; ITERATIVE IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; NOISE; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

ALGORITHMS; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY VESSELS; HUMANS; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STENTS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84866925568     PISSN: 10766332     EISSN: 18784046     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.acra.2012.06.013     Document Type: Article

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