Evaluation of temporal windows for coronary artery bypass graft imaging with 64-slice CT

European Radiology

Volumn 17, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 2819-2828

  Desbiolles, Lotus ^a   Leschka, Sebastian ^a   Plass, André ^a   Scheffel, Hans ^a   Husmann, Lars ^a   Gaemperli, Oliver ^a   Garzoli, Elisabeth ^a   Marincek, Borut ^a   Kaufmann, Philipp A ^b   Alkadhi, Hatem ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

64 slice computed tomography; Coronary artery bypass graft; Temporal window

Indexed keywords

IODIXANOL;

ADULT; AGED; ARTERY GRAFT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; INTERNAL MAMMARY ARTERY; KAPPA STATISTICS; MALE; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; OBSERVER VARIATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIAL ARTERY; RIGHT CORONARY ARTERY; RR INTERVAL; SAPHENOUS VEIN GRAFT; SCORING SYSTEM;

AGED; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBSERVER VARIATION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TIME FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 35348999156     PISSN: 09387994     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00330-007-0693-z     Document Type: Article

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