Artifact reduction strategies for prosthetic heart valve CT imaging

International Journal of Cardiovascular Imaging

Volumn 28, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 2099-2108

  Habets, Jesse ^a   Symersky, Petr ^b   Leiner, Tim ^a   De Mol, Bas A J M ^b   Mali, Willem P Th M ^a   Budde, Ricardo P J ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^b ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c GELRE HOSPITALS   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Computed tomography; Iterative reconstruction; Metal artifact reduction; Prosthetic heart valve; Tube voltage

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; ARTIFACT REDUCTION; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL EVALUATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FILTER; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IN VITRO STUDY; NOISE MEASUREMENT; PROCESS OPTIMIZATION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; STRATEGIC PLANNING;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFACTS; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; PROSTHESIS DESIGN; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 84870537604     PISSN: 15695794     EISSN: 15730743     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10554-012-0041-5     Document Type: Article

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