Evaluation of coronary artery bypass grafts using multidetector-row CT with Japanese patients

Radiation Medicine - Medical Imaging and Radiation Oncology

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 72-76

  Murai, Sachiko ^a   Hamada, Seiki ^a   Yamamoto, Shuji ^b   Khankan, Azzam A ^a   Sumikawa, Hiromitsu ^a   Inoue, Atsuo ^a   Tsubamoto, Mitsuko ^a   Honda, Osamu ^a   Tomiyama, Noriyuki ^a   Johkoh, Takeshi ^a   Nakamura, Hironobu ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b OSAKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Coronary artery bypass graft; Multidetector row computed tomography; Multiplanar reconstruction; Three dimensional volume rendering

Indexed keywords

IOHEXOL;

ADULT; AGED; ANGIOGRAPHY; ARTERY DIAMETER; ARTICLE; ASIAN; CAUCASIAN; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; COMPUTER; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CORONARY ARTERY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; FEMALE; GRAFT PATENCY; HUMAN; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; JAPANESE; MALE; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; MULTIPLANAR RECONSTRUCTION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; THREE DIMENSIONAL VOLUME RENDERING;

ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS; FEMALE; GRAFT OCCLUSION, VASCULAR; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; JAPAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VASCULAR PATENCY;

EID: 32844474395     PISSN: 02882043     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02489992     Document Type: Article

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