How do you quantify noncalcified plaque?

Journal of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography

Volumn 2, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 360-365

  Schuijf, Joanne D ^a   Bax, Jeroen J ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Calcified plaque; Multislice computed tomography; Noncalcified plaque

Indexed keywords

CONTRAST MEDIUM;

ACUTE CORONARY SYNDROME; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROTIC PLAQUE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE DIAGNOSIS; RATING SCALE;

ALGORITHMS; CALCINOSIS; CAROTID STENOSIS; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; HUMANS; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 56949106782     PISSN: 19345925     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcct.2008.10.003     Document Type: Article

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