Variability of aortic valve calcification measurement with multislice spiral computed tomography

Investigative Radiology

Volumn 41, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 370-373

  Ruhl, Karl M ^a   Das, Marco ^a   Koos, Ralf ^a   Mühlenbruch, Georg ^a   Flohr, Thomas G ^b   Wildberger, Joachim E ^a   Günther, Rolf W ^a   Mahnken, Andreas H ^a  

^a RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b SIEMENS AG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Aortic valve calcification; Aortic valve stenosis; Multislice spiral CT

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AORTA VALVE CALCIFICATION; AORTA VALVE STENOSIS; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT REDUCTION; CALCIFICATION; CALCIUM CELL LEVEL; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MALE; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RR INTERVAL; SAMPLE SIZE; SCORING SYSTEM; SPIRAL COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; WILCOXON SIGNED RANKS TEST; AORTA VALVE; CALCINOSIS; DIASTOLE; HEART RATE; HOSPITALIZATION; IMAGE PROCESSING; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSIOLOGY; PILOT STUDY; RADIATION DOSE; RADIOGRAPHY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AORTIC VALVE; AORTIC VALVE STENOSIS; CALCINOSIS; DIASTOLE; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PILOT PROJECTS; RADIATION DOSAGE; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TOMOGRAPHY, SPIRAL COMPUTED;

EID: 33746412045     PISSN: 00209996     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.rli.0000197979.44181.92     Document Type: Article

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