Applications and software techniques for integrated cardiac multimodality imaging

Expert Review of Cardiovascular Therapy

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 27-41

  Slomka, Piotr J ^a,b   Berman, Daniel S ^a,b   Germano, Guido ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b CEDARS SINAI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Computed tomography; Computed tomography angiography; Coronary artery disease; Hybrid imaging; Image fusion; Multimodality imaging; PET; Single photon emission tomography

Indexed keywords

COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; RADIOCARDIOGRAPHY; RADIODIAGNOSIS; RADIOSENSITIVITY; REVIEW; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY;

CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; SOFTWARE; SUBTRACTION TECHNIQUE; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 38049151278     PISSN: 14779072     EISSN: 17448344     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1586/14779072.6.1.27     Document Type: Review

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