Stenosis quantification in coronary CT angiography: Impact of an integrated circuit detector with iterative reconstruction

Investigative Radiology

Volumn 48, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 32-40

  Morsbach, Fabian ^a   Desbiolles, Lotus ^b   Plass, André ^c   Leschka, Sebastian ^b   Schmidt, Bernhard ^d   Falk, Volkmar ^c   Alkadhi, Hatem ^a   Stolzmann, Paul ^a  

^a University Hospital Zurich Institut fur Diagnostische Radiologie   (Switzerland)

^b CANTONAL HOSPITAL ST GALLEN   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^d SIEMENS AG   (Germany)

Author keywords

angiography; coronary stenosis; iterative reconstruction; multisection computed tomography; radiologic phantom

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTERIAL WALL THICKNESS; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; EX VIVO STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 84871614856     PISSN: 00209996     EISSN: 15360210     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/RLI.0b013e318274cf82     Document Type: Article

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