Evaluation of coronary stents and stenoses at different heart rates with dual source spiral CT (DSCT)

Investigative Radiology

Volumn 42, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 536-541

  Lell, Michael M ^a   Panknin, Christoph ^a,b   Saleh, Roya ^a   Sayre, James W ^a,c   Schmidt, Bernhard ^b   Dinh, Howard ^a   Ruehm, Stefan G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b SIEMENS AG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Angiography; Coronary CTA; CT; Dual source; MDCT; Stenosis; Stent

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; BLOOD VESSEL DIAMETER; CORONARY ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; CORONARY STENT; HEART MOVEMENT; HEART RATE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; MEASUREMENT ERROR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; ROBOTICS; SIMULATION; SPIRAL COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 34250734125     PISSN: 00209996     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/RLI.0b013e318041f674     Document Type: Article

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