Imaging of cardiac perfusion of free-breathing small animals using dynamic phase-correlated micro-CT

Medical Physics

Volumn 39, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 7499-7506

  Sawall, Stefan ^a,b   Kuntz, Jan ^b   Socher, Michaela ^b   Knaup, Michael ^a   Hess, Andreas ^a   Bartling, Sönke ^b   Kachelrie, Marc ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^b GERMAN CANCER RESEARCH CENTER DKFZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

cardiac computed tomography; multigated computed tomography; small animal imaging

Indexed keywords

CONTRAST MEDIA; EDGE DETECTION; HEART; ITERATIVE METHODS; MAMMALS;

CARDIAC-COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORRELATED DYNAMICS; EDGE-PRESERVING FILTER; ITERATIVE RECONSTRUCTION ALGORITHMS; RECONSTRUCTION ALGORITHMS; RECONSTRUCTION METHOD; RESPIRATORY MOTIONS; SMALL ANIMAL IMAGING;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 84870943176     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.4762685     Document Type: Article

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