Coronary plaque imaging with multislice computed tomography: Technique and clinical applications

European Radiology, Supplement

Volumn 16, Issue 7, 2006, Pages

  Cademartiri, Filippo ^a,b   La Grutta, Ludovico ^a,c   Palumbo, Anselmo Alessandro ^a,b   Maffei, Erica ^b   Runza, Giuseppe ^c   Bartolotta, Tommaso Vincenzo ^c   Pugliese, Francesca ^a   Mollet, Nico R A ^a   Midiri, Massimo ^c   Krestin, Gabriel P ^a  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF PARMA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PALERMO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Coronary atherosclerosis; Coronary calcification; Multislice computed tomography; Vulnerable plaque

Indexed keywords

ARTERY CALCIFICATION; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROTIC PLAQUE; BODY MASS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CORONARY ARTERY ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; ELASTOGRAPHY; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; INTRAVASCULAR ULTRASOUND; NON INVASIVE PROCEDURE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RAMAN SPECTROMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY;

CALCINOSIS; CONTRAST MEDIA; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; HUMANS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 33845410232     PISSN: 16133749     EISSN: 16133757     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10406-006-0195-0     Document Type: Article

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