New advances in cardiac computed tomography

Current Opinion in Cardiology

Volumn 24, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 596-603

  Ramkumar, Prasad Guntur ^a,b   Mitsouras, Dimitrios ^a   Feldman, Charles L ^a   Stone, Peter H ^a   Rybicki, Frank J ^a  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Atherosclerosis; Computed tomography angiography; Coronary artery; Endothelial shear stress; Multidetector computed tomography; Novel imaging

Indexed keywords

BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; CONTRAST MEDIUM; IODINATED CONTRAST MEDIUM; IODINE;

ACUTE CORONARY SYNDROME; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; AORTA DISEASE; ATHEROSCLEROTIC PLAQUE; CINEANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CLINICAL RESEARCH; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CORONARY ARTERY; CORONARY ARTERY ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS SURGERY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY VASCULAR RESISTANCE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; ENDOTHELIAL SHEAR STRESS; HEART HEMODYNAMICS; HEART INFARCTION; HEART MUSCLE PERFUSION; HUMAN; LUNG EMBOLISM; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; NON INVASIVE PROCEDURE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVIEW; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SHEAR STRESS; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; THORAX PAIN;

CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; HUMANS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 74249113916     PISSN: 02684705     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/HCO.0b013e3283319b84     Document Type: Review

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