Measuring noncalcified coronary atherosclerotic plaque using voxel analysis with MDCT angiography: A pilot clinical study

American Journal of Roentgenology

Volumn 190, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1553-1560

  Clouse, Melvin E ^a   Sabir, Adeel ^a   Yam, Chun Shan ^a   Yoshimura, Norihiko ^a   Lin, Shezhang ^a   Welty, Francine ^a   Martinez Clark, Pedro ^a   Raptopoulos, Vassilios ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Cardiac imaging; Coronary artery wall; Coronary imaging; CT angiography; MDCT; Micro CT; Voxel analysis

Indexed keywords

IOVERSOL; METOPROLOL TARTRATE;

ADULT; ANALYTIC METHOD; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTERIAL WALL THICKNESS; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROTIC PLAQUE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CORONARY ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DRUG DOSE TITRATION; DRUG EFFECT; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMAN; MALE; MEASUREMENT; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; VOXEL ANALYSIS;

ALGORITHMS; CALCINOSIS; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PILOT PROJECTS; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 44849088701     PISSN: 0361803X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2214/AJR.07.2988     Document Type: Article

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