Digital radiography with dual-energy subtraction: Improved evaluation of cardiac calcification

American Journal of Roentgenology

Volumn 183, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 1233-1238

  Gilkeson, Robert C ^a   Novak, R D ^a   Sachs, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS OF CLEVELAND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CALCIFICATION; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; DIGITAL RADIOGRAPHY; DUAL ENERGY X RAY ABSORPTIOMETRY; HUMAN; NON INVASIVE PROCEDURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UNITED STATES; ADULT; AGED; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; CALCINOSIS; CARDIOMYOPATHY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DIGITAL SUBTRACTION ANGIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RADIOGRAPHY; VALVULAR HEART DISEASE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANGIOGRAPHY, DIGITAL SUBTRACTION; CALCINOSIS; CARDIOMYOPATHIES; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY DISEASE; FEMALE; HEART VALVE DISEASES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 16544384609     PISSN: 0361803X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2214/ajr.183.5.1831233     Document Type: Article

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