Influence of Body Size and Section Level on Calcium Phantom Measurements at Coronary Artery Calcium CT Scanning

Radiology

Volumn 230, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 198-205

  Stanford, William ^a   Burns, Trudy L ^a,b   Thompson, Brad H ^a   Witt, John D ^b   Lauer, Ronald M ^a,b   Mahoney, Larry T ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

Computed tomography (CT), experimental studies; Coronary vessels, calcification; Coronary vessels, CT; Phantoms; Test objects

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM; HYDROXYAPATITE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; BODY SIZE; CALCIUM BLOOD LEVEL; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGING; MALE; MEASUREMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCORING SYSTEM;

ADULT; BODY CONSTITUTION; CALCIUM; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0347479221     PISSN: 00338419     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/radiol.2301020807     Document Type: Article

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