CT Perfusion: Ready for prime time

Current Cardiology Reports

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 57-66

  Ambrose, Marietta S ^a   Valdiviezo, Carolina ^a   Mehra, Vishal ^a   Lardo, Albert C ^a,b   Lima, Joao A C ^a   George, Richard T ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Johns Hopkins University   (United States)

Author keywords

CAD; Cardiac stress test; Coronary; CT perfusion imaging; CTA; Dual source CT; Dynamic CT; Helical CT; MDCT; Myocardial blood flow; Myocardial perfusion; Noninvasive testing

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ARTIFACT REDUCTION; CARDIAC IMAGING; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT TOOL; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; COMPUTER ASSISTED SCINTIGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; ELECTRON BEAM TOMOGRAPHY; HEART MUSCLE BLOOD FLOW; HEART MUSCLE PERFUSION; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MYOCARDIAL PERFUSION IMAGING; NONHUMAN; PROCESS DEVELOPMENT; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY;

CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY VESSELS; EXERCISE TEST; HUMANS; MYOCARDIAL PERFUSION IMAGING; MYOCARDIUM; TIME; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 79551526835     PISSN: 15233782     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11886-010-0152-3     Document Type: Article

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