Coronary ostium - Straight tube or funnel-shaped? A computerized tomographic coronary angiography study

Acute Cardiac Care

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 224-228

  Aviram, Galit ^a,b   Shmilovich, Haim ^a   Finkelstein, Ariel ^a   Rosen, Galia ^a   Banai, Shmuel ^a   Graif, Moshe ^a   Keren, Gad ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV SOURASKY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

Arteries; Imaging; Structure

Indexed keywords

BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; IOPROMIDE;

ADULT; ANATOMY; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTERY DIAMETER; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; LEFT CORONARY ARTERY; MALE; MEASUREMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIGHT CORONARY ARTERY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; VOLUMETRY;

ADULT; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY VESSELS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STENTS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 33845681450     PISSN: 17482941     EISSN: 1748295X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17482940601026519     Document Type: Article

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