Improved delineation of the anterior spinal artery with model-based iterative reconstruction in CT angiography: A clinical pilot study

American Journal of Roentgenology

Volumn 200, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 442-446

  Machida, Haruhiko ^a   Tanaka, Isao ^a   Fukui, Rika ^a   Kita, Kazuyo ^b   Shen, Yun ^a,c   Ueno, Eiko ^a   Suzuki, Shigeru ^d  

^a TOKYO WOMEN'S MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL HOSPITAL ORGANIZATION TOKYO MEDICAL CENTER   (Japan)

^c GE HEALTHCARE   (United States)

^d SAITAMA RED CROSS HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Anterior spinal artery; CT angiography; Image quality; Iterative reconstruction

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE STATISTICAL ITERATIVE RECONSTRUCTION; ADULT; AGED; ALGORITHM; ANTERIOR SPINAL ARTERY; AORTA; ARTERY; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; CONTRAST TO NOISE RATIO; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FILTERED BACK PROJECTION; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE DISPLAY; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; MODEL BASED ITERATIVE RECONSTRUCTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOLOGIST; SPINAL CORD;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANGIOGRAPHY; AORTOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PILOT PROJECTS; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SPINE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84873600660     PISSN: 0361803X     EISSN: 15463141     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2214/AJR.11.7826     Document Type: Article

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