Assessment of coronary artery by four-detector multislice computed tomography: Diagnostic accuracy and limitations for coronary artery lesions

Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 41, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 225-234

  Otsuka, Masato ^a   Hirohashi, Shinji ^b   Uemura, Shiro ^b   Watanabe, Makoto ^b   Ishigami, Kenichi ^b   Maekura, Takuya ^b   Itoh, Akira ^a   Haze, Kazuo ^a   Saito, Yoshihiko ^b   Kichikawa, Kimihiko ^b  

^a OSAKA CITY GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b NARA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Angiography; Computed tomography; Coronary artery disease; Diagnosis

Indexed keywords

ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; APPARATUS; ARTICLE; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; EVALUATION; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; AGED; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORONARY BLOOD VESSEL; FEMALE; IMAGE PROCESSING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RADIOGRAPHY;

AGED; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY DISEASE; CORONARY VESSELS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0037831084     PISSN: 09145087     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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