Advantages of retrospective ECG-gating in cardio-thoracic imaging with 16-row multislice computed tomography

Acta Biomedica de l'Ateneo Parmense

Volumn 74, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 126-130

  Cademartiri, Filippo ^a,b,c   Pavone, Paolo ^b  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PARMA   (Italy)

^c NONE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Coronary arteries; Multislice spiral computed tomography; Non invasive angiography; Thoracic vessels

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AORTA; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; BLOOD VESSEL; BREATH HOLDING; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY; CORONARY ARTERY CIRCUMFLEX BRANCH; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; FEMALE; GATED IMAGING; HUMAN; LEFT ANTERIOR DESCENDING CORONARY ARTERY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTISLICE COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PULMONARY ARTERY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RIGHT CORONARY ARTERY; SCORING SYSTEM; VEIN;

ADULT; AGED; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RADIOGRAPHY, THORACIC; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 1542725080     PISSN: 03924203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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