Helical and single-slice conventional CT versus electron beam CT for the quantification of coronary artery calcification

American Journal of Roentgenology

Volumn 174, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 543-547

  Becker, Christoph R ^a   Jakobs, Tobias F ^a   Aydemir, Sibel ^b   Becker, Alexander ^b   Knez, Andreas ^b   Schoepf, Uwe J ^a   Bruening, Roland ^a   Haberl, Ralph ^b   Reiser, Maximilian F ^a  

^a LUDWIG MAXIMILIANS UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTERY CALCIFICATION; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORRELATION FUNCTION; ELECTRON BEAM TOMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE DIAGNOSIS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0033980414     PISSN: 0361803X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2214/ajr.174.2.1740543     Document Type: Article

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