Assessment of Agatston coronary artery calcium score using contrast-enhanced CT coronary angiography

American Journal of Roentgenology

Volumn 195, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1299-1305

  Van Der Bijl, Noortje ^a   Joemai, Raoul M S ^a   Geleijns, Jacob ^a   Bax, Jeroen J ^a   Schuijf, Joanne D ^a   De Roos, Albert ^a   Kroft, Lucia J M ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Agatston score; Coronary artery calcium; CT angiography; Unenhanced CT

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM;

ADULT; AGATSTON SCORE; ARTERY CALCIFICATION; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; EVALUATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PREDICTOR VARIABLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCORING SYSTEM; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

CALCINOSIS; CONTRAST MEDIA; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY STENOSIS; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; IOPAMIDOL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 78649742052     PISSN: 0361803X     EISSN: 15463141     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2214/AJR.09.3734     Document Type: Article

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