A strategy to decrease partial scan reconstruction artifacts in myocardial perfusion CT: Phantom and in vivo evaluation - Ramirez-Giraldo, Juan C.; Yu, Lifeng; Kantor, Birgit; Ritman, Erik L.; McCollough, Cynthia H. (Medical physics (Lancaster), 2012)
Keywords: Algorithms; Animals; Blood flow in cardiovascular system; blood flow measurement; blood vessels; Cardiac-Gated Imaging Techniques - methods; cardiovascular system; Computed tomography; Computerised tomographs; computerised tomography; Coronary Angiography - methods; Digital computing or data processing equipment or methods, specially adapted for specific applications; Female; functional imaging; Heart; Heart and lung dynamics; Image data processing or generation, in general; image reconstruction; linear filters; Measuring blood flow; Measuring volume, volume flow, mass flow, or liquid level; Metering by volume; Medical image artifacts; Medical image noise; medical image processing; Medical image reconstruction; Medical imaging; Medical X‐ray imaging; muscle; myocardial perfusion; partial scan reconstruction artifacts; Perfusion Imaging - methods; phantoms; Phantoms, Imaging; Radiation Imaging Physics; Radiographic Image Enhancement - methods; Radiographic Image Interpretation, Computer-Assisted - methods; Reconstruction; Reproducibility of Results; Sensitivity and Specificity; Spatial filtering; Spatial resolution; Swine; Tomography, X-Ray Computed - methods; computed tomography; linear filters; myocardial perfusion; functional imaging; partial scan reconstruction artifacts