Automated three-dimensional quantification of noncalcified coronary plaque from coronary CT angiography: Comparison with intravascular US

Radiology

Volumn 257, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 516-522

  Dey, Damini ^a   Schepis, Tiziano ^b   Marwan, Mohamed ^b   Slomka, Piotr J ^a   Berman, Daniel S ^a   Achenbach, Stephan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IOMEPROL;

ADULT; AGED; ALGORITHM; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROTIC PLAQUE; AUTOMATION; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CORONARY ARTERY ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFORMED CONSENT; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTRAVASCULAR ULTRASOUND; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHMS; AUTOMATION; CONTRAST MEDIA; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY VESSELS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; IOPAMIDOL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TIME FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL;

EID: 77958592028     PISSN: 00338419     EISSN: 15271315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/radiol.10100681     Document Type: Article

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