Myocardial bridging on dual-source computed tomography: degree of systolic compression of mural coronary artery correlating with length and depth of the myocardial bridge

Clinical Imaging

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 83-88

  Liu, Shi he ^a   Yang, Qing ^b   Chen, Jiu hong ^c   Wang, Xi ming ^d   Wang, Min ^a   Liu, Cheng ^d  

^a SHANDONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b QINGDAO UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c SIEMENS LTD   (China)

^d SHANDONG MEDICAL IMAGING RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (China)

Author keywords

Coronary compression; Coronary vessel anomalies; Dual source computed tomography

Indexed keywords

COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERIES; CORONARY VESSEL; DATA SETS; DUAL SOURCE; MYOCARDIAL BRIDGING; RR INTERVALS;

COMPUTER CRIME; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; HEART;

MAGNETIC LOGIC DEVICES;

ADULT; AGED; ARTERY COMPRESSION; ARTERY DIAMETER; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROTIC PLAQUE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DUAL SOURCE COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART CONTRACTION; HEART CYCLE; HEART RATE VARIABILITY; HEART SIZE; HUMAN; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MYOCARDIAL BRIDGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RR INTERVAL; SYSTOLE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANATOMY, CROSS-SECTIONAL; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY STENOSIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL BRIDGING; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOGRAPHY, DUAL-ENERGY SCANNED PROJECTION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SYSTOLE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 77249102692     PISSN: 08997071     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clinimag.2009.05.010     Document Type: Article

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