Usefulness of multidetector CT imaging to assess vascular stents in children with congenital heart disease: An in vivo and in vitro study

Catheterization and Cardiovascular Interventions

Volumn 72, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 544-551

  Eichhorn, Joachim G ^a,d,e   Long, Frederick R ^c   Jourdan, Claudia ^a,d   Heverhagen, Johannes T ^a   Hill, Sharon L ^b   Raman, Subha V ^a   Cheatham, John P ^b  

^a THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b NATIONWIDE CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c THE RESEARCH INSTITUTE AT NATIONWIDE CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^e SOPHIA CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Complications pediatric cath intervention; Imaging (CT MR); Pediatric interventions; Quantitative vascular angiography; Radiation physics; Restenosis

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIGITAL SUBTRACTION ANGIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; IN-STENT RESTENOSIS; INFANT; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; NON INVASIVE PROCEDURE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RADIATION EXPOSURE; STENT; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTIFACT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONGENITAL HEART MALFORMATION; EVALUATION; FEASIBILITY STUDY; GRAFT OCCLUSION; HEART CATHETERIZATION; INSTRUMENTATION; INTERVENTIONAL RADIOLOGY; METHODOLOGY; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; RADIATION DOSE; RADIOGRAPHY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STENOSIS, OCCLUSION AND OBSTRUCTION;

ANGIOGRAPHY, DIGITAL SUBTRACTION; ARTIFACTS; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CONSTRICTION, PATHOLOGIC; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; GRAFT OCCLUSION, VASCULAR; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART DEFECTS, CONGENITAL; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STENTS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 58149218710     PISSN: 15221946     EISSN: 1522726X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ccd.21680     Document Type: Article

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