Thoracic cardiovascular imaging with 16-row multislice Computed Tomography and retrospective ECG-gating. Technical note;Imaging cardio-vascolare del torace con Tomografia Computerizzata multistrato a 16 canali e gating elettrocardiografico retrospettivo. Nota tecnica

Radiologia Medica

Volumn 108, Issue 5-6, 2004, Pages 487-493

  Cademartiri, Filippo ^a,e   Runza, Giuseppe ^b   Marano, Riccardo ^c   Luccichenti, Giacomo ^d   Midiri, Massimo ^b  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PALERMO   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHIETI   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PARMA   (Italy)

^e NONE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Coronary arteries; Non invasive angiography; Retrospective ECG gating; Spiral Computed Tomography; Thoracic vessels

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AORTA; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; ASCENDING AORTA; CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY CIRCUMFLEX BRANCH; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEFT ANTERIOR DESCENDING CORONARY ARTERY; LEFT CORONARY ARTERY; MALE; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PULMONARY ARTERY; PULMONARY VEIN; RETROSPECTIVE ELECTROCARDIOGRAM GATING; RIGHT CORONARY ARTERY; SCORING SYSTEM; SPIRAL COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; TECHNIQUE; THORAX;

ADULT; AGED; AORTOGRAPHY; ARTIFACTS; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PULMONARY ARTERY; PULMONARY VEINS; SOFTWARE; TOMOGRAPHY, SPIRAL COMPUTED;

EID: 13244265709     PISSN: 00338362     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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