Radiologist Assistant Curriculum - American Society of Radiologic ...
Radiologist Assistant Curriculum - American Society of Radiologic ...
Radiologist Assistant Curriculum - American Society of Radiologic ...
Create successful ePaper yourself
Turn your PDF publications into a flip-book with our unique Google optimized e-Paper software.
2. Grid-based models<br />
3. 3-D sampling function<br />
4. Secondary raw data set<br />
a. Image noise<br />
C. Cine viewing<br />
1. Uses<br />
2. Disadvantages<br />
D. Multiplanar reformations<br />
1. Principle<br />
2. Artifacts<br />
3. Applications<br />
a. Anatomically corrected datasets<br />
b. Problem-solving<br />
c. Noise reduction in standard displays<br />
4. Image analysis and documentation<br />
E. Maximum intensity projection (MIP) and minimum intensity projection (MinIP)<br />
1. Principle<br />
a. Defining the volume <strong>of</strong> interest (VOI)<br />
b. Preserving attenuation information<br />
c. Image background<br />
d. Image contrast<br />
e. Viewing angle<br />
f. Cine loop to improve 3-D orientation<br />
g. Image noise<br />
2. Thin-slab MIP<br />
a. Improvement in spatial orientation<br />
3. MinIP<br />
a. Tracheobronchial imaging<br />
b. Image contrast, noise and VOI<br />
c. Imaging volume and viewing angle<br />
4. Artifact pitfalls<br />
a. CT angiography<br />
1) Intravascular lesions<br />
2) Intimal flaps<br />
1) Calcifications<br />
b. Pulmonary MIP and MinIP<br />
1) Endobronchial lesions<br />
2) Vascular pulsations<br />
5. Applications <strong>of</strong> MIP and MinIP<br />
a. CT angiography<br />
b. Pulmonary lesions<br />
c. Central tracheobronchial system<br />
d. Intrahepatic bile ducts<br />
41<br />
© Copyright 2011 by the <strong>American</strong> <strong>Society</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Radiologic</strong> Technologists. All rights reserved.
Change language