Automated 3-dimensional quantification of noncalcified and calcified coronary plaque from coronary CT angiography

Journal of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography

Volumn 3, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 372-382

  Dey, Damini ^a,b   Cheng, Victor Y ^a   Slomka, Piotr J ^a,b   Nakazato, Ryo ^a   Ramesh, Amit ^a   Gurudevan, Swaminatha ^a   Germano, Guido ^a,b   Berman, Daniel S ^a,b  

^a CEDARS SINAI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Coronary artery segmentation; Coronary CT angiography; Coronary plaque; Noncalcified and calcified plaque; Plaque characterization; Plaque quantification

Indexed keywords

CONTRAST MEDIUM;

ADULT; AGED; ALGORITHM; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTERY CALCIFICATION; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROTIC PLAQUE; AUTOMATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; OBSERVER VARIATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; CALCINOSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; EVALUATION STUDY; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PROCEDURES; RADIOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALGORITHMS; CALCINOSIS; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBSERVER VARIATION; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SOFTWARE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 71849107551     PISSN: 19345925     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcct.2009.09.004     Document Type: Article

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