Impact of vessel attenuation on quantitative coronary angiography with 64-slice CT

British Journal of Radiology

Volumn 82, Issue 980, 2009, Pages 649-653

  Husmann, L ^a   Gaemperli, O ^a   Valenta, I ^a   Schepis, T ^a   Scheffel, H ^a   Stolzmann, P ^a   Leschka, S ^a   Desbiolles, L ^a   Marincek, B ^a   Alkadhi, H ^a   Kaufmann, Philipp A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IODIXANOL; ISOSORBIDE DINITRATE; METOPROLOL; METOPROLOL TARTRATE;

ADULT; AGED; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL DIAMETER; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; CORONARY BLOOD VESSEL; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGING SYSTEM; LEFT CORONARY ARTERY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RIGHT CORONARY ARTERY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY STENOSIS; CORONARY VESSELS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 67650673802     PISSN: 00071285     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1259/bjr/40319502     Document Type: Article

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