Coronary artery disease: Improved reproducibility of calcium scoring with an electron-beam CT volumetric method

Radiology

Volumn 208, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 807-814

  Callister, Tracy Q ^a   Cooil, Bruce ^b   Raya, Sai P ^a   Lippolis, Nicholas J ^a   Russo, Donald J ^a   Raggi, Paolo ^a  

^a EBT Research Foundation   (United States)

^b VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Arteriosclerosis; Calcium; Computed tomography (CT), electron beam; Coronary vessels, calcification; Coronary vessels, CT

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM;

ARTERY CALCIFICATION; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; ELECTRON BEAM; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCIBILITY; SCORING SYSTEM;

EID: 0031720879     PISSN: 00338419     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/radiology.208.3.9722864     Document Type: Article

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