Noninvasive coronary angiography using 64-slice spiral computed tomography in an unselected patient collective: Effect of heart rate, heart rate variability and coronary calcifications on image quality and diagnostic accuracy

European Journal of Radiology

Volumn 66, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 134-141

  Brodoefel, H ^a   Reimann, A ^a   Burgstahler, C ^a   Schumacher, F ^a   Herberts, T ^b   Tsiflikas, I ^a   Schroeder, S ^a   Claussen, C D ^a   Kopp, A F ^a   Heuschmid, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

64 Slice CT; Calcium score; Diagnostic accuracy; Heart rate; Heart rate variability

Indexed keywords

CALCIFICATION (BIOCHEMISTRY); COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; PATIENT MONITORING; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

BODY MASS INDEX (BMI); CALCIUM SCORES; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; HEART RATE VARIABILITY; MULTIVARIATE REGRESSIONS;

ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY;

CALCIUM;

ADULT; AGED; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTERY CALCIFICATION; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HEART RATE VARIABILITY; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPIRAL COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY;

BODY MASS INDEX; CALCINOSIS; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CONTRAST MEDIA; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY STENOSIS; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMANS; IOPAMIDOL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TOMOGRAPHY, SPIRAL COMPUTED;

EID: 41149124559     PISSN: 0720048X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejrad.2007.05.013     Document Type: Article

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