Cardiac multidetector computed tomography: Where do we stand?

Hellenic Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 50, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 523-535

  Kyrzopoulos, Stamatis ^a,b   Neefjes, Lisanne A E ^b   De Feyter, Pim ^b  

^a ONASSIS CARDIAC SURGERY CENTER   (Greece)

^b ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Noninvasive coronary angiography; Noninvasive imaging

Indexed keywords

CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; EXTRASYSTOLE; GATED IMAGING; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART MUSCLE PERFUSION; HUMAN; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; RADIATION EXPOSURE; REVIEW; STENT;

CONTRAST MEDIA; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIATION DOSAGE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 73249146929     PISSN: 10117970     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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