Dual-energy CT of the heart for diagnosing coronary artery stenosis and myocardial ischemia-initial experience

European Radiology

Volumn 18, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 2414-2424

  Ruzsics, Balazs ^a   Lee, Heon ^b   Zwerner, Peter L ^a   Gebregziabher, Mulugeta ^c   Costello, Philip ^a   Schoepf, U Joseph ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b Seoul Medical Center   (South Korea)

^c MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IOPROMIDE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD POOL SCINTISCANNING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY CIRCUMFLEX BRANCH; CORONARY ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DUAL ENERGY COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART MUSCLE BLOOD FLOW; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LEFT ANTERIOR DESCENDING CORONARY ARTERY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIGHT CORONARY ARTERY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; X RAY FLUORESCENCE;

ALGORITHMS; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY STENOSIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL ISCHEMIA; PILOT PROJECTS; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 54049156093     PISSN: 09387994     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00330-008-1022-x     Document Type: Article

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