Non-invasive visualization of coronary atherosclerosis: State-of-art

Journal of Cardiovascular Medicine

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 129-137

  Cademartiri, Filippo ^a,b   La Grutta, Ludovico ^a   Palumbo, Alessandro ^a,b   Malagutti, Patrizia ^a   Pugliese, Francesca ^a   Meijboom, W Bob ^a   Baks, Timo ^a   Mollet, Nico R ^a   Bruining, Nico ^a   Hamers, Ronald ^a   De Feyter, Pim J ^a  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF PARMA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Acute coronary syndrome; Coronary atherosclerosis; Coronary imaging; Multislice CT; Plaque

Indexed keywords

BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; CONTRAST MEDIUM;

ARTERY WALL; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY ATHEROSCLEROSIS; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; REVIEW;

CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERIOSCLEROSIS; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 33847156379     PISSN: 15582027     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2459/01.JCM.0000260820.40145.a8     Document Type: Review

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