Advances in the noninvasive evaluation of coronary artery disease with multislice computed tomography

Expert Review of Medical Devices

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 441-451

  Pundziute, Gabija ^a,b   Schuijf, Joanne D ^a,c   Jukema, J Wouter ^a,c   de Roos, Albert ^a   van der Wall, Ernst E ^a,c   Bax, Jeroen J ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b KAUNAS UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE   (Lithuania)

^c ROYAL NETHERLANDS ACADEMY OF ARTS AND SCIENCES   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Computed tomography; Coronary angiography; Coronary artery disease; Left ventricular function

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM;

ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTERY CALCIFICATION; ATHEROSCLEROTIC PLAQUE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CORONARY ARTERY ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY STENT; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; ELECTRON BEAM TOMOGRAPHY; GRAFT OCCLUSION; HEART HEMODYNAMICS; HEART INFARCTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HEART PERFUSION; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; NON INVASIVE PROCEDURE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PREDICTION; PROGNOSIS; RADIATION DOSE; REVIEW; SCORING SYSTEM; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; SPIRAL COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; STRESS ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; SYSTOLE;

CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERIOSCLEROSIS; HUMANS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 33746617859     PISSN: 17434440     EISSN: 17452422     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1586/17434440.3.4.441     Document Type: Review

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