Three-dimensional analysis of the left anterior descending coronary artery: Comparison with conventional coronary angiograms

Coronary Artery Disease

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 265-270

  Katritsis, Demosthenes G ^a,b   Pantos, Ioannis ^a   Efstathopoulos, Efstathios P ^a   Tzanalaridou, Efthalia ^a   Korovesis, Socrates ^a   Kourlaba, Georgia ^a   Paxinos, George ^a   Voridis, Eutychios ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b Athens Euroclinic ^*  (Greece)

Author keywords

Coronary angiography; Coronary arteries; Three dimensional reconstruction

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROTIC PLAQUE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; FEMALE; HEART INFARCTION; HEART VENTRICLE CONTRACTION; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LEFT ANTERIOR DESCENDING CORONARY ARTERY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECANALIZATION; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TWO DIMENSIONAL CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; TWO DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; AGED; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CORONARY BLOOD VESSEL; EVALUATION; IMAGE PROCESSING; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; RADIOGRAPHY;

AGED; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY STENOSIS; CORONARY VESSELS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION;

EID: 54749142883     PISSN: 09546928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MCA.0b013e3282f7ff5f     Document Type: Article

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