Calcified plaque: Measurement of area at thin-section flat-panel CT and 64-section multidetector CT and comparison with histopathologic findings 1

Radiology

Volumn 249, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 301-306

  Sarwar, Ammar ^a   Rieber, Johannes ^a   Mooyaart, Eline A Q ^a   Seneviratne, Sujith K ^a   Houser, Stuart L ^a   Bamberg, Fabian ^a   Christopher Raffel, O ^a   Gupta, Rajiv ^a   Kalra, Mannudeep K ^a   Pien, Homer ^a   Lee, Hang ^a   Brady, Thomas J ^a   Hoffmann, Udo ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROTIC PLAQUE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY ATHEROSCLEROSIS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; CALCINOSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY BLOOD VESSEL; HEART; METHODOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; RADIOGRAPHY;

CALCINOSIS; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY VESSELS; HEART; HUMANS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 53749085374     PISSN: 00338419     EISSN: 15271315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/radiol.2483072003     Document Type: Article

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