Detection of coronary artery stenoses with multislice helical CT angiography

Journal of Computer Assisted Tomography

Volumn 26, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 750-755

  Becker, Christoph R ^a   Knez, Andreas ^a   Leber, Alexander ^a   Treede, Hendrik ^a   Ohnesorge, B ^b   Schoepf, U Joseph ^a   Reiser, Maximilian F ^a  

^a LUDWIG MAXIMILIANS UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b SIEMENS AG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Computed tomography; Coronary angiography; Coronary arteries; Coronary artery disease

Indexed keywords

BLOOD VESSELS; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DISEASES; HEART;

COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERIES; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY ARTERY STENOSIS; CT ANGIOGRAPHY; MULTI SLICES; MULTISLICE CT; NEGATIVE PREDICTIVE VALUE; STENOSES;

ANGIOGRAPHY;

BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT;

ACCURACY; ADULT; AGED; ANGIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY; TISSUE SLICE;

EID: 0036761291     PISSN: 03638715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00004728-200209000-00015     Document Type: Article

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