Carotid bifurcation calcium and correlation with percent stenosis of the internal carotid artery on CT angiography

Neuroradiology

Volumn 47, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 1-9

  McKinney, Alexander M ^a   Casey, Sean O ^a   Teksam, Mehmet ^a   Lucato, Leandro T ^b   Smith, Maurice ^c   Truwit, Charles L ^a   Kieffer, Stephen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^c Johns Hopkins University   (United States)

Author keywords

Calcification; Calcium; Carotid stenosis; Carotidarteries; Computed tomography (CT); CT angiography (CTA)

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM; IOVERSOL;

ADULT; AGED; ARTERY CALCIFICATION; ARTICLE; CAROTID ARTERY BIFURCATION; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INTERNAL CAROTID ARTERY OCCLUSION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; RISK ASSESSMENT; SCORING SYSTEM; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SKULL BASE; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CALCINOSIS; CALCIUM; CAROTID ARTERY, COMMON; CAROTID ARTERY, INTERNAL; CAROTID STENOSIS; CONTRAST MEDIA; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; ROC CURVE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, SPIRAL COMPUTED; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TRIIODOBENZOIC ACIDS;

EID: 13844313817     PISSN: 00283940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00234-004-1301-4     Document Type: Article

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