Coronary artery calcification: Effect of size of field of view on multi-detector row CT measurements

Radiology

Volumn 233, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 281-285

  Hong, Cheng ^a   Pilgram, Thomas K ^a   Zhu, Fang ^a   Bae, Kyongtae T ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Computed tomography (CT), image processing; Computed tomography (CT), image quality; Coronary vessels, calcification; Coronary vessels, CT

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM;

ADULT; AGED; ARTERY CALCIFICATION; ARTICLE; ASCENDING AORTA; CALIBRATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STANDARDIZATION;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ARTIFACTS; CALCINOSIS; CALCIUM; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY DISEASE; CORONARY STENOSIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MATCHED-PAIR ANALYSIS; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; TOMOGRAPHY, SPIRAL COMPUTED;

EID: 4644228195     PISSN: 00338419     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/radiol.2331031463     Document Type: Article

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