Coronary calcification: Effect of small variation of scan starting position on agatston, volume, and mass scores

Radiology

Volumn 246, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 90-98

  Rutten, Annemarieke ^a   Isgum, Ivana ^b   Prokop, Mathias ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGATSTON SCORE; AGED; ALGORITHM; ARTERY CALCIFICATION; ARTICLE; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCORING SYSTEM;

AGED; CALCINOSIS; CORONARY DISEASE; FEMALE; HUMANS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 37349117653     PISSN: 00338419     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/radiol.2461070006     Document Type: Article

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