Electron beam CT versus 16-MDCT on the variability of repeated coronary artery calcium measurements in a variable heart rate phantom

American Journal of Roentgenology

Volumn 185, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 995-1000

  Horiguchi, Jun ^a   Shen, Yun ^b   Akiyama, Yuji ^a   Hirai, Nobuhiko ^a   Sasaki, Kousuke ^b   Ishifuro, Minoru ^a   Nakanishi, Tadashi ^c   Ito, Katsuhide ^d  

^a HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b GE HealthCare Japan   (Japan)

^c MAZDA MOTOR CORPORATION   (Japan)

^d HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CORONARY ARTERY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; ELECTRON BEAM TOMOGRAPHY; HEART RATE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; CALCINOSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY ATHEROSCLEROSIS; GENERAL APPARATUS, EQUIPMENT AND SUPPLIES; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; PHYSIOLOGY; RADIOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SPIRAL COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY;

ALGORITHMS; CALCINOSIS; CORONARY ARTERIOSCLEROSIS; HEART RATE; HUMANS; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TOMOGRAPHY SCANNERS, X-RAY COMPUTED; TOMOGRAPHY, SPIRAL COMPUTED;

EID: 32944454815     PISSN: 0361803X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2214/AJR.04.1057     Document Type: Article

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