Comparison of image quality, and diagnostic interpretability of a new volumetric high temporal resolution scanner versus 64-slice MDCT

Clinical Imaging

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 205-211

  Raju, Rekha ^a   Cury, Ricardo C ^b   Precious, Bruce ^a   Blanke, Philipp ^a   Naoum, Christopher ^a   Arepalli, Chesnal ^a   Batlle, Juan C ^b   Murphy, Darra ^a   Hague, Cameron ^a   Leipsic, Jonathon A ^a  

^a ST PAUL S HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^b Radiology Associates of South Florida   (United States)

Author keywords

Diagnostic interpretability; Image quality; Signal homogeneity; Volumetric high temporal resolution scanner

Indexed keywords

BLOOD; BLOOD VESSELS; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; HEART; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; QUALITY CONTROL; SCANNING;

BLOOD POOL; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC; CORONARY CT ANGIOGRAPHIES; HEART RATES; HIGH TEMPORAL RESOLUTION; INTERPRETABILITY; RATE CONTROLS; REGIONS OF INTEREST;

IMAGE QUALITY;

64 SLICE MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; ADULT; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; AORTA; ARTICLE; BLOOD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DIAGNOSIS; DIAGNOSTIC INTERPRETABILITY; FEMALE; HEART MUSCLE; HEART RATE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; LIKERT SCALE; MALE; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PILOT STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RADIATION DOSE; RADIOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; SIGNAL HOMOGENEITY; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; VOLUMETRIC HIGH TEMPORAL RESOLUTION COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; AGED; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY BLOOD VESSEL; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; MIDDLE AGED; PROCEDURES; REPRODUCIBILITY; STANDARDS;

ADULT; AGED; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY VESSELS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PILOT PROJECTS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 84961187998     PISSN: 08997071     EISSN: 18734499     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clinimag.2015.10.009     Document Type: Article

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