Noninvasive detection and evaluation of atherosclerotic coronary plaques with multislice computed tomography

Journal of the American College of Cardiology

Volumn 37, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 1430-1435

  Schroeder, Stephen ^a   Kopp, Andreas F ^a   Baumbach, Andreas ^c   Meisner, Christoph ^a   Kuettner, Axel ^a   Georg, Christian ^a   Ohnesorge, Bernd ^b   Herdeg, Christian ^a   Claussen, Claus D ^a   Karsch, Karl R ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b SIEMENS AG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY ATHEROSCLEROSIS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; ECHOGRAPHY; EQUIPMENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0035312512     PISSN: 07351097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0735-1097(01)01115-9     Document Type: Article

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