A new densitometric approach to the assessment of mean coronary flow

Investigative Radiology

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 198-204

  Dorsaz, Pierre André ^a,b   Doriot, Pierre André ^a   Dorsaz, Lidia ^a   Chatelain, Pascal ^a   Rutishauser, Wilhelm ^a  

^a GENEVA UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS   (Switzerland)

^b Canton Hospital of the University of Geneva   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

coronary angiography; Coronary flow; densitometry; FloWire

Indexed keywords

ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CORONARY ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; DENSITOMETRY; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; HUMAN; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; LEFT CORONARY ARTERY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIGHT CORONARY ARTERY;

EID: 0030909635     PISSN: 00209996     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00004424-199704000-00002     Document Type: Article

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