Technology insight: Cardiac CT angiography

Nature Clinical Practice Cardiovascular Medicine

Volumn 3, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 265-275

  Poon, Michael ^a  

^a CABRINI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Cardiac; CT; Imaging; Multidetector row

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCYSTEINE; ANTIHISTAMINIC AGENT; ATENOLOL; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; CALCIUM; CALCIUM CHANNEL BLOCKING AGENT; CONTRAST MEDIUM; GLUCOCORTICOID; GLYCERYL TRINITRATE; METOPROLOL;

ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; AORTA DISSECTION; ARTIFACT REDUCTION; ATHEROSCLEROTIC PLAQUE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CORONARY ARTERY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DRUG HYPERSENSITIVITY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FUNCTIONAL MORPHOLOGY; GRAFT PATENCY; HEART MUSCLE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; IONIZING RADIATION; LUNG EMBOLISM; MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY; METAL IMPLANTATION; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; NEPHROTOXICITY; NON INVASIVE PROCEDURE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATIENT SELECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION EXPOSURE; REVIEW; SAFETY; X RAY ANALYSIS;

CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY DISEASE; HUMANS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 33646259255     PISSN: 17434297     EISSN: 17434300     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncpcardio0541     Document Type: Review

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