Sixteen-row multislice computed tomography in the assessment of pulmonary veins prior to ablative treatment: Validation vs conventional pulmonary venography and study of reproducibility

European Radiology

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 369-374

  Maksimović, Ružica ^a   Cademartiri, Filippo ^a   Scholten, Marcoen ^a   Jordaens, Luc J ^a   Pattynama, Peter M T ^a  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Computed tomography; Pulmonary veins; Venography

Indexed keywords

ANTIARRHYTHMIC AGENT;

ADULT; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CRYOTHERAPY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; LUNG ANGIOGRAPHY; LUNG VEIN; MALE; PHLEBOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCIBILITY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TREATMENT PLANNING; VALIDATION PROCESS; VEIN DIAMETER;

ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHLEBOGRAPHY; PREOPERATIVE CARE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PULMONARY VEINS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 1542345775     PISSN: 09387994     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00330-003-2156-5     Document Type: Article

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