Patient characteristics as predictors of image quality and diagnostic accuracy of MDCT compared with conventional coronary angiography for detecting coronary artery stenoses: CORE-64 multicenter international trial

American Journal of Roentgenology

Volumn 194, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 93-102

  Dewey, Marc ^a   Vavere, Andrea L ^b   Arbab Zadeh, Armin ^b   Miller, Julie M ^b   Sara, Leonardo ^c   Cox, Christopher ^d   Gottlieb, Ilan ^b   Yoshioka, Kunihiro ^e   Paul, Narinder ^f   Hoe, John ^g   De Roos, Albert ^h   Lardo, Albert C ^b   Lima, Joao A ^b   Clouse, Melvin E ⁱ  

^a CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^d JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^e IWATE MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^f TORONTO GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^g MOUNT ELIZABETH MEDICAL CENTRE   (Singapore)

^h LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

ⁱ HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Angiography; Body mass index; CORE 64; Coronary artery calcium; Heart rate; Hemodynamics; Image quality; MDCT

Indexed keywords

BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; GLYCERYL TRINITRATE; IOPAMIDOL;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTERY CALCIFICATION; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; BODY MASS; BREATHING; CARDIAC PATIENT; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVENTIONAL ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY; CORONARY ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; FEMALE; HEART RATE VARIABILITY; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTICENTER STUDY; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; OBESITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE DIFFERENCE; SEX DIFFERENCE; SINGLE BLIND PROCEDURE;

ARTIFACTS; BODY MASS INDEX; CALCINOSIS; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY STENOSIS; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RISK FACTORS; ROC CURVE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 74749099540     PISSN: 0361803X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2214/AJR.09.2833     Document Type: Article

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