Automatic bone removal technique in whole-body dual-energy CT angiography: Performance and image quality

American Journal of Roentgenology

Volumn 199, Issue 5, 2012, Pages

  Schulz, Boris ^a   Kuehling, Katharina ^a   Kromen, Wolfgang ^a   Siebenhandl, Petra ^a   Kerl, Matthias Josef ^a   Vogl, Thomas Josef ^a   Bauer, Ralf ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL FRANKFURT   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bone removal; CT angiography; Dual energy CT; Image quality

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTERY; ARTICLE; BONE RADIOGRAPHY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE EFFECTIVENESS; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; PELVIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION ENERGY; STERNUM; THORAX; WHOLE BODY AUTORADIOGRAPHY; WHOLE BODY DUAL ENERGY COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANEURYSM; ANGIOGRAPHY, DIGITAL SUBTRACTION; BONE AND BONES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; WHOLE BODY IMAGING;

EID: 84868017336     PISSN: 0361803X     EISSN: 15463141     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2214/AJR.12.9176     Document Type: Article

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