Triple Rule-out and Dedicated Coronary Artery CTA. Comparison of Coronary Artery Image Quality

Academic Radiology

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 604-609

  Rahmani, Navid ^a   Jeudy, Jean ^a   White, Charles S ^a  

^a LONG ISLAND JEWISH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

CTA; image quality; Triple rule out

Indexed keywords

ACUTE CORONARY SYNDROME; ADULT; AGED; AORTA DISSECTION; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; BLOOD VESSEL; BLOOD VESSEL DIAMETER; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY; EMERGENCY WARD; HEART RATE; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; LUNG EMBOLISM; MOTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOLOGIST; RATING SCALE; SCORING SYSTEM; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFACTS; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBSERVER VARIATION; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 63549103264     PISSN: 10766332     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.acra.2008.11.008     Document Type: Article

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