Coronary artery calcium scoring: Influence of reconstruction interval and reconstruction increment using 64-MDCT

American Journal of Roentgenology

Volumn 188, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 1063-1068

  Schlosser, Thomas ^a,b   Hunold, Peter ^a   Voigtländer, Thomas ^b   Schmermund, Axel ^b   Barkhausen, Jörg ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ESSEN   (Germany)

^b CARDIOANGIOLOGISCHES CENTRUM BETHANIEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cardiac imaging; Cardiovascular disease; Coronary calcium; CT

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTERY RECONSTRUCTION; ARTICLE; CALCIUM CELL LEVEL; CALCULATION; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MALE; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SCORING SYSTEM; VOLUMETRY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CALCINOSIS; CORONARY ARTERIOSCLEROSIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 33947704170     PISSN: 0361803X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2214/AJR.05.1369     Document Type: Article

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