Usefulness of coronal reconstruction ct images for quantitative evaluation of the cross-sectional area of small pulmonary vessels

Academic Radiology

Volumn 21, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 1411-1415

  Matsuoka, Shin ^a   Yamashiro, Tsuneo ^a,b   Matsushita, Shoichiro ^a   Kotoku, Akiyuki ^a   Fujikawa, Atsuko ^a   Yagihashi, Kunihiro ^a   Tomita, Hayato ^a   Sakamoto, Shingo ^a   Saito, Yuki ^a   Saruya, Shinji ^a   Nakajima, Yasuo ^a  

^a ST MARIANNA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE RYUKYUS   (Japan)

Author keywords

Computed tomography; Pulmonary perfusion; Pulmonary vessels; Quantitative; Reconstruction

Indexed keywords

ALBUMIN; TECHNETIUM 99M;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL EVALUATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; LUNG BLOOD VESSEL; LUNG PERFUSION; LUNG SCINTISCANNING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; VERY ELDERLY; YOUNG ADULT; ALGORITHM; ANATOMY; ANGIOGRAPHY; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; LUNG DISEASE; PROCEDURES; PULMONARY ARTERY; RADIOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALGORITHMS; ANATOMY, CROSS-SECTIONAL; ANGIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUNG DISEASES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PULMONARY ARTERY; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84908066395     PISSN: 10766332     EISSN: 18784046     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.acra.2014.05.024     Document Type: Article

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