Coronary Artery Calcium Scoring on Low-dose Prospective Electrocardiographically-triggered 64-Slice CT

Academic Radiology

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 187-193

  Horiguchi, Jun ^a   Matsuura, Noriaki ^b   Yamamoto, Hideya ^c   Kiguchi, Masao ^a   Fujioka, Chikako ^a   Kitagawa, Toshiro ^c   Kohno, Nobuoki ^c   Ito, Katsuhide ^b,c  

^a HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b Division of Medical Intelligence and Informatics   (Japan)

^c HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

calcium; coronary artery; CT; interobserver variability; interscan variability; radiation dose

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASCENDING AORTA; BODY MASS; CORONARY ARTERY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; NOISE MEASUREMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RADIATION DOSE; SCORING SYSTEM;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CALCINOSIS; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 58149127698     PISSN: 10766332     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.acra.2008.05.017     Document Type: Article

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