Malignant right coronary artery anomaly simulated by motion artifacts on MDCT

American Journal of Roentgenology

Volumn 185, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 1007-1010

  Katoh, Marcus ^a   Wildberger, Joachim E ^a   Günther, Rolf W ^a   Buecker, Arno ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL RWTH AACHEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANGIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; BREATH HOLDING; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY ANOMALY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LUNG EXAMINATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOTION; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RADIODIAGNOSIS; RADIOLOGIST; RIGHT CORONARY ARTERY; CORONARY VESSEL MALFORMATION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MIDDLE AGED; RADIOGRAPHY;

CONTRAST MEDIUM; DIAGNOSTIC AGENT; DRUG DERIVATIVE; IOHEXOL; IOPROMIDE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTIFACTS; CONTRAST MEDIA; CORONARY VESSEL ANOMALIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; IOHEXOL; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 32944480555     PISSN: 0361803X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2214/AJR.04.1461     Document Type: Article

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