Cardiac CT: Coronary arteries and beyond

European Radiology

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 994-1008

  Mahnken, Andreas H ^a,b   Mühlenbruch, Georg ^a   Günther, Rolf W ^a   Wildberger, Joachim E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL RWTH AACHEN   (Germany)

^b RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Coronary vessels; Heart function; Heart viability; Multi detector row computed tomography (CT)

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; CALCIUM CHANNEL BLOCKING AGENT; CONTRAST MEDIUM; GLYCERYL TRINITRATE; METOPROLOL;

ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; AORTA VALVE; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT REDUCTION; ATHEROSCLEROTIC PLAQUE; BREATH HOLDING; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONVENTIONAL ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; CORONARY STENT; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; ELECTRON BEAM TOMOGRAPHY; GATED IMAGING; GRAFT PATENCY; HEALTH CARE COST; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEART MUSCLE PERFUSION; HUMAN; IMAGE DISPLAY; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IN-STENT RESTENOSIS; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTRAVASCULAR ULTRASOUND; META ANALYSIS; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; NON INVASIVE MEASUREMENT; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PREDICTION; PRIMARY PREVENTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE DIAGNOSIS; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RELIABILITY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; SPIRAL COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW;

CALCINOSIS; CONTRAST MEDIA; CORONARY VESSELS; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; TISSUE SURVIVAL; TOMOGRAPHY, SPIRAL COMPUTED;

EID: 34248673435     PISSN: 09387994     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00330-006-0433-9     Document Type: Article

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