Recent technological advances in computed tomography and the clinical impact therein

Investigative Radiology

Volumn 50, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 119-127

  Runge, Val M ^a,b   Marquez, Herman ^a   Andreisek, Gustav ^a   Valavanis, Anton ^b   Alkadhi, Hatem ^a  

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

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Computed tomography; Contrast enhanced CT; CT image quality; Dual energy CT; Iterative reconstruction; Low kilovolt; Perfusion imaging; Radiation dose; Virtual monoenergetic CT

Indexed keywords

CONTRAST MEDIUM;

ARTIFACT REDUCTION; BLOOD FLOW; BRAIN ANGIOGRAPHY; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DUAL ENERGY COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; ITERATIVE RECONSTRUCTION; LUNG ANGIOGRAPHY; MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY; PERFUSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION DOSE REDUCTION; REVIEW; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; VIRTUAL MONOENERGETIC COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; X RAY TUBE; ANGIOGRAPHY; BIOMEDICAL TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; DEVICES; PROCEDURES; RADIOGRAPHY;

ANGIOGRAPHY; HUMANS; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOGRAPHY, DUAL-ENERGY SCANNED PROJECTION; TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT, BIOMEDICAL; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84925934669     PISSN: 00209996     EISSN: 15360210     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/RLI.0000000000000125     Document Type: Review

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