Relationship Between Coronary Artery Disease and Epicardial Adipose Tissue Quantification at Cardiac CT. Comparison Between Automatic Volumetric Measurement and Manual Bidimensional Estimation

Academic Radiology

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 727-734

  Bastarrika, Gorka ^a,b   Broncano, Jordi ^b   Schoepf, U Joseph ^a   Schwarz, Florian ^a   Lee, Yeong Shyan ^a,c   Abro, Joseph A ^a   Costello, Philip ^a   Zwerner, Peter L ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NAVARRA   (Spain)

^c TAN TOCK SENG HOSPITAL   (Singapore)

Author keywords

coronary artery disease; epicardial adipose tissue; reproducibility of results; Tomography scanners; X ray computed

Indexed keywords

ADIPOSE TISSUE; ADULT; AGED; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTERY CALCIFICATION; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CALCIUM SCORE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DISEASE SEVERITY; EPICARDIUM; FEMALE; GENSINI SCORE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; OBSERVER VARIATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY; SCORING SYSTEM; VOLUMETRY;

ADIPOSE TISSUE; ADULT; AGED; ALGORITHMS; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 77951978313     PISSN: 10766332     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.acra.2010.01.015     Document Type: Article

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