Multidetector-row computed tomography coronary angiography - Optimization of image reconstruction phase according to the heart rate

Circulation Journal

Volumn 71, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 112-121

  Nagatani, Yukihiro ^a   Takahashi, Masashi ^a   Takazakura, Ryutaro ^a   Nitta, Norihisa ^a   Murata, Kiyoshi ^a   Ushio, Noritoshi ^a   Matsuo, Shinro ^a   Yamamoto, Takashi ^a   Horie, Minoru ^a  

^a SHIGA UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cardiac phase; Late systole; Mid diastole; P wave; T wave

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY STENT; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; FEMALE; HEART INFARCTION; HEART RATE; HUMAN; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGING SYSTEM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY VESSELS; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SYSTOLE; TOMOGRAPHY, SPIRAL COMPUTED;

EID: 33845977773     PISSN: 13469843     EISSN: 13474820     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1253/circj.71.112     Document Type: Article

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