Coronary Calcification at Electron-Beam CT: Effect of Section Thickness on Calcium Scoring in Vitro and in Vivo

Radiology

Volumn 229, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 520-525

  Vliegenthart, Rozemarijn ^a,b   Song, Bin ^c   Hofman, Albert ^b   Witteman, Jacqueline C M ^b   Oudkerk, Matthijs ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c WEST CHINA UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

Coronary vessels, calcification; Coronary vessels, CT

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM;

ADULT; AGED; ARTERY CALCIFICATION; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CORONARY ARTERY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DENSITY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; ELECTRON BEAM TOMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LUNG VOLUME; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEASUREMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCORING SYSTEM; THICKNESS;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CALCINOSIS; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY DISEASE; CORONARY VESSELS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0142178311     PISSN: 00338419     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/radiol.2292021305     Document Type: Article

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