Acute Aortic Syndromes: New Insights from Electrocardiographically Gated Computed Tomography

Seminars in Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 340-347

  Fleischmann, Dominik ^a   Mitchell, R Scott ^a   Miller, D Craig ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

acute aortic syndrome; aortic dissection; atherosclerotic penetrating ulcer; ECG gated CT; intramural hematoma

Indexed keywords

ACUTE AORTIC SYNDROME; AORTA ANEURYSM; AORTA DISEASE; AORTA DISSECTION; AORTA RECONSTRUCTION; AORTA VALVE REGURGITATION; ARTERY INTIMA PROLIFERATION; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT REDUCTION; ATHEROSCLEROTIC PLAQUE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HEMATOMA; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ACUTE DISEASE; AORTA, THORACIC; AORTIC DISEASES; ARTIFACTS; CONTRAST MEDIA; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SYNDROME; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 60749098444     PISSN: 10430679     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/j.semtcvs.2008.11.011     Document Type: Article

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