Normal Thoracic Aorta Diameter on Cardiac Computed Tomography in Healthy Asymptomatic Adults. Impact of Age and Gender

Academic Radiology

Volumn 15, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 827-834

  Mao, Song Shou ^a   Ahmadi, Nasir ^a   Shah, Birju ^a   Beckmann, Daniel ^a   Chen, Annie ^a   Ngo, Luan ^a   Flores, Ferdinand R ^a   Gao, Yan lin ^a   Budoff, Matthew J ^a  

^a HARBOR UCLA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

aging aorta; Ascending aortic diameter; electron beam CT MDCT

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ANATOMY; AORTA ATHEROSCLEROSIS; ARTERY CALCIFICATION; ARTERY DIAMETER; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; BLOOD VESSEL DIAMETER; BODY HEIGHT; BODY SURFACE; BODY WEIGHT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DEMOGRAPHY; ELECTRON BEAM TOMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GENDER; GROUPS BY AGE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HEART OUTPUT; HEART VENTRICLE VOLUME; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MALE; MEASUREMENT; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; NORMAL HUMAN; OBSERVER VARIATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCIBILITY; SEX DIFFERENCE; THORACIC AORTA;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AORTA, THORACIC; CALCINOSIS; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CONTRAST MEDIA; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REFERENCE VALUES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SEX FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 47749136981     PISSN: 10766332     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.acra.2008.02.001     Document Type: Article

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