Quantification of arterial plaque and lumen density with MDCT

Medical Physics

Volumn 37, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 4227-4237

  Paul, Narinder S ^a   Blobel, Joerg ^b   Kashani, Hany ^a   Rice, Murray ^c   Ursani, Ali ^c  

^a TORONTO GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^b Toshiba Medical Systems   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY HEALTH NETWORK   (Canada)

Author keywords

arterial plaque; CT coronary angiography

Indexed keywords

ANGIOGRAPHY; CALCIUM; CONTRAST MEDIA; FUNCTIONS; HYDROXYAPATITE; PHANTOMS;

ARTERIAL PLAQUE; ATTENUATION PROPERTIES; CALCIUM HYDROXYAPATITE; CT CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHIES; MATHEMATICAL CORRECTIONS; MATHEMATICAL FORMULAS; MATHEMATICAL RELATIONSHIP; NONINVASIVE CLASSIFICATIONS;

MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY;

ARTERY; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHOTON ABSORPTIOMETRY; RADIOGRAPHY;

ABSORPTIOMETRY, PHOTON; ARTERIES; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; MODELS, CARDIOVASCULAR; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 78149491299     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3447725     Document Type: Article

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