Multislice CT coronary angiography: How to do it and what is the current clinical performance?

European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging

Volumn 32, Issue 11, 2005, Pages 1337-1347

  Cademartiri, Filippo ^a,b   Schuijf, Joanne D ^c,d   Mollet, Nico R ^a   Malagutti, Patrizia ^a   Runza, Giuseppe ^a,b   Bax, Jeroen J ^c   De Feyter, Pim J ^a  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF PARMA   (Italy)

^c LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^d ROYAL NETHERLANDS ACADEMY OF ARTS AND SCIENCES   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Coronary artery disease; Image reconstruction; Multislice computed tomography

Indexed keywords

CONTRAST MEDIUM;

ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DATA ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIASTOLE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; FLUOROSCOPY; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART CONTRACTION; HEART CYCLE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEART VENTRICLE ARRHYTHMIA; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MEDICAL INFORMATION; PROGNOSIS; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; REVIEW; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; TACHYCARDIA;

CLINICAL TRIALS; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERIOSCLEROSIS; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; PRACTICE GUIDELINES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, SPIRAL COMPUTED;

EID: 27744521343     PISSN: 16197070     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00259-005-1856-2     Document Type: Review

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