Coronary artery calcium scoring using 16-MDCT and a retrospective ECG-gating reconstruction algorithm

American Journal of Roentgenology

Volumn 183, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 103-108

  Horiguchi, Jun ^a   Yamamoto, Hideya ^b   Akiyama, Yuji ^a   Marukawa, Kazushi ^b   Hirai, Nobuhiko ^a   Ito, Katsuhide ^b  

^a HIROSHIMA UNIV SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM;

ADULT; AGED; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY; CORONARY ARTERY ATHEROSCLEROSIS; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 2942711722     PISSN: 0361803X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2214/ajr.183.1.1830103     Document Type: Article

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