Open AccessOptimal Contrast of Cerebral Dual-Energy Computed Tomography Angiography in Patients With Spontaneous Subarachnoid Hemorrhage
Author(s) -
Dan Wang,
Qiaowei Zhang,
Hongjie Hu,
Wenming Zhang,
Renbiao Chen,
Chi Shing Zee,
RiSheng Yu
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
journal of computer assisted tomography
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.53
H-Index - 93
eISSN - 1532-3145
pISSN - 0363-8715
DOI - 10.1097/rct.0000000000000336
Subject(s) - medicine , hounsfield scale , subarachnoid hemorrhage , image quality , image noise , radiology , angiography , nuclear medicine , tomography , contrast to noise ratio , attenuation , computed tomography , image (mathematics) , artificial intelligence , physics , computer science , optics
The aim of this study was to investigate the image quality of cerebral dual-energy computed tomography (CT) angiography using a nonlinear image blending technique as compared with the conventional linear blending method in patients with spontaneous subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH).