Coronary calcium scoring: Modelling, predicting and correcting for the effect of CT scanner spatial resolution on Agatston and volume scores

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 48, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 1423-1436

  Kaufman, Leon ^a,b   Mineyev, Mikhail ^a,b   Carlson, Joseph ^b   Goldhaber, David ^b   Rumberger, John ^c  

^a AccuImage Diagnostics Corporation   (United States)

^b Intl MRI Accreditation Resources   (United States)

^c OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM; CALCIUM; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; WIRE;

SPATIAL RESOLUTION;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

ALUMINUM; CALCIUM; WATER;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY; HEART; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; MONITORING; PERFORMANCE; PHANTOM; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCORING SYSTEM; X RAY;

ARTERIOSCLEROSIS; BIOPHYSICS; CALCINOSIS; CALCIUM; CORONARY DISEASE; CORONARY VESSELS; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; RISK FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0038119671     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/48/10/313     Document Type: Article

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