Dual-energy multi-detector row CT with virtual monochromatic imaging for improving patient-to-patient uniformity of aortic enhancement during CT angiography: An in vitro and in vivo study

Radiology

Volumn 272, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 895-902

  Marin, Daniele ^a   Fananapazir, Ghaneh ^a   Mileto, Achille ^a   Choudhury, Kingshuk Roy ^a   Wilson, Joshua M ^a   Nelson, Rendon C ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AORTA, ABDOMINAL; AORTOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; RADIOGRAPHY, DUAL-ENERGY SCANNED PROJECTION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84906875948     PISSN: 00338419     EISSN: 15271315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/radiol.14132857     Document Type: Article

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