Direct quantitative in vivo comparison of calcified atherosclerotic plaque on vascular MRI and CT by multimodality image registration

Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 345-354

  Dey, Damini ^a   Slomka, Piotr ^a,b   Chien, Daisy ^a   Fieno, David ^a   Abidov, Aiden ^a   Saouaf, Rola ^a   Thomson, Louise ^a   Friedman, John D ^a,b   Berman, Daniel S ^a,b  

^a CEDARS SINAI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Atherosclerosis; CT blooming; Image fusion; Multimodality image registration; Plaque imaging

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROTIC PLAQUE; BLOOD VESSEL CALCIFICATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IN VIVO STUDY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; THORACIC AORTA; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

AGED; ALGORITHMS; AORTA, THORACIC; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CALCINOSIS; CONTRAST MEDIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IOHEXOL; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SOFTWARE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 33644842007     PISSN: 10531807     EISSN: 15222586     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jmri.20520     Document Type: Article

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