Moving Beyond Binary Grading of Coronary Arterial Stenoses on Coronary Computed Tomographic Angiography. Insights for the Imager and Referring Clinician

JACC: Cardiovascular Imaging

Volumn 1, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 460-471

  Cheng, Victor ^a   Gutstein, Ariel ^a   Wolak, Arik ^a   Suzuki, Yasuyuki ^a   Dey, Damini ^a   Gransar, Heidi ^a   Thomson, Louise E J ^a,b   Hayes, Sean W ^a,b   Friedman, John D ^a,b   Berman, Daniel S ^a,b  

^a CEDARS SINAI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

computed tomography; coronary angiography; coronary artery disease; predictive value; quantification

Indexed keywords

IODIXANOL; IOHEXOL; METOPROLOL;

ADULT; AGED; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTERY CALCIFICATION; ARTICLE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DISEASE SEVERITY; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCORING SYSTEM;

AGED; CALCINOSIS; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY STENOSIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 47349124065     PISSN: 1936878X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcmg.2008.05.006     Document Type: Article

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