Influence of intra-coronary enhancement on diagnostic accuracy with 64-slice CT coronary angiography

European Radiology

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 576-583

  Cademartiri, Filippo ^a,b   Maffei, Erica ^a   Palumbo, Anselmo Alessandro ^a   Malagò, Roberto ^c   La Grutta, Ludovico ^d   Meiijboom, W Bob ^b   Aldrovandi, Annachiara ^a   Fusaro, Michele ^a   Vignali, Luigi ^a   Menozzi, Alberto ^a   Brambilla, Valerio ^e   Coruzzi, Paolo ^e   Midiri, Massimo ^d   Kirchin, Miles A ^f   Mollet, Nico R A ^b   Krestin, Gabriel P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF PARMA   (Italy)

^b ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VERONA   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PALERMO   (Italy)

^e IRCCS FONDAZIONE DON CARLO GNOCCHI   (Italy)

^f Bracco Imaging SpA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Coronary angiography; Coronary artery disease; Diagnostic accuracy; Iodine concentration; Multislice computed tomography

Indexed keywords

ATENOLOL; IOMEPROL; ISOSORBIDE DINITRATE;

ADULT; AGED; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVENTIONAL ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FALSE NEGATIVE RESULT; FALSE POSITIVE RESULT; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION ATTENUATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY STENOSIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 39049119346     PISSN: 09387994     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00330-007-0773-0     Document Type: Article

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