Anatomy and terminology for the interpretation and reporting of cardiac MDCT:Part 2, CT angiography, cardiac function assessment, and noncoronary and extracardiac findings

American Journal of Roentgenology

Volumn 192, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 584-598

  Sundaram, Baskaran ^a   Patel, Smita ^a   Agarwal, Prachi ^a   Kazerooni, Ella A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

Cardiac CT; Cardiac function; Coronary CT angiography

Indexed keywords

AORTA VALVE; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; CONVENTIONAL ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; CORONARY STENT; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE SEVERITY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART ATRIUM; HEART FUNCTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEART VENTRICLE; HUMAN; MEDICAL SOCIETY; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PERICARDIUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY ARTERY; PULMONARY VEIN; REVIEW;

CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY DISEASE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART FUNCTION TESTS; HUMANS; INCIDENTAL FINDINGS; MEDICAL RECORDS; TERMINOLOGY AS TOPIC; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 63049128614     PISSN: 0361803X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2214/AJR.08.1178     Document Type: Review

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