Baseline heart rate-adjusted electrocardiographic triggering for coronary artery electron-beam CT angiography

Radiology

Volumn 233, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 590-595

  Lu, Bin ^a   Zhuang, Nan ^a   Mao, Song Shou ^b   Child, Janis ^b   Carson, Sivi ^b   Budoff, Matthew J ^b  

^a FUWAI HOSPITAL   (China)

^b St John's Cardiovascular Research Center   (United States)

Author keywords

Computed tomography (CT), angiography, 54.12116; Computed tomography (CT), electron beam; Computed tomography (CT), image quality; Coronary vessels, stenosis or obstruction, 54.76

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTRON BEAM TOMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGING SYSTEM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STENOSIS;

ADULT; AGED; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY DISEASE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 7044263141     PISSN: 00338419     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/radiol.2332030953     Document Type: Article

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