Influence of Heart Rate on the Diagnostic Accuracy of Dual-Source Computed Tomography Coronary Angiography

Journal of the American College of Cardiology

Volumn 50, Issue 25, 2007, Pages 2393-2398

  Ropers, Ulrike ^a   Ropers, Dieter ^a   Pflederer, Tobias ^a   Anders, Katharina ^a   Kuettner, Axel ^a   Stilianakis, Nikolaos I ^a,b   Komatsu, Sei ^a   Kalender, Willi ^a   Bautz, Werner ^a   Daniel, Werner G ^a   Achenbach, Stephan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^b JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AGED; ALGORITHMS; CONTRAST MEDIA; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY STENOSIS; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; IOHEXOL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 37449003958     PISSN: 07351097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jacc.2007.09.017     Document Type: Article

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