Coronary artery calcium: A multi-institutional, multimanufacturer international standard for quantification at cardiac CT

Radiology

Volumn 243, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 527-538

  McCollough, Cynthia H ^a   Ulzheimer, Stefan ^b,d   Halliburton, Sandra S ^c   Shanneik, Kaiss ^b   White, Richard D ^c,e   Kalender, Willi A ^b  

^a Mayo Clinic   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^c LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d SIEMENS AG   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HYDROXYAPATITE;

ARTERY CALCIFICATION; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CALIBRATION; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; STANDARDIZATION;

CALCINOSIS; CORONARY ARTERIOSCLEROSIS; HUMANS; INDUSTRY; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; REFERENCE STANDARDS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 34247546063     PISSN: 00338419     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/radiol.2432050808     Document Type: Article

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