Low-dose CT coronary angiography in the step-and-shoot mode: Diagnostic performance

Heart

Volumn 94, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 1132-1137

  Scheffel, H ^a   Alkadhi, H ^a   Leschka, S ^a   Plass, A ^a   Desbiolles, L ^a   Guber, I ^a   Krauss, T ^a   Gruenenfelder, J ^a   Genoni, M ^a   Luescher, T F ^a   Marincek, B ^a   Stolzmann, P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RADIATION DOSE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CONTRAST MEDIA; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY STENOSIS; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 50249178242     PISSN: 13556037     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/hrt.2008.149971     Document Type: Article

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