Cardiac dual-source computed tomography: Effect of body mass index on image quality and diagnostic accuracy

Investigative Radiology

Volumn 43, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 712-718

  Brodoefel, Harald ^a   Tsiflikas, Ilias ^a   Burgstahler, Christof ^a   Reimann, Anja ^a   Thomas, Christoph ^a   Schroeder, Stephen ^a   Kopp, Andreas F ^a   Claussen, Claus D ^a   Heuschmid, Martin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Coronary artery disease; Diagnostic accuracy; Dual source computed tomography; Image quality; Obesity

Indexed keywords

IOMEPROL; ISOSORBIDE DINITRATE;

ADULT; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DISEASE SEVERITY; DUAL SOURCE COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; OBESITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SINGLE DRUG DOSE; CORONARY BLOOD VESSEL; EVALUATION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; INSTRUMENTATION; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

BODY MASS INDEX; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY VESSELS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; OBESITY; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 58149377814     PISSN: 00209996     EISSN: 15360210     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/RLI.0b013e318180bae1     Document Type: Article

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