CT coronary angiography: Influence of different cardiac reconstruction intervals on image quality and diagnostic accuracy

European Journal of Radiology

Volumn 67, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 92-99

  Dewey, Marc ^a   Teige, Florian ^a   Rutsch, Wolfgang ^a   Schink, Tania ^a   Hamm, Bernd ^a  

^a HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Angiography; Cardiac; Computed tomography; Coronary vessels; Reconstruction; Sensitivity

Indexed keywords

CARDIAC RECONSTRUCTION; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY VESSELS; DATA-SETS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; MULTI-SLICE COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY (MSCT); NON PARAMETRIC ANALYSIS; R R INTERVAL; REPEATED MEASUREMENTS;

ADULT; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; MALE; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RR INTERVAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 44949260070     PISSN: 0720048X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejrad.2007.07.012     Document Type: Article

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