Coronary vessel and luminal area measurement using dual-source computed tomography in comparison with intravascular ultrasound: Effect of window settings on measurement accuracy

Journal of Computer Assisted Tomography

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 113-118

  Marwan, Mohamed ^a   Pflederer, Tobias ^a   Schepis, Tiziano ^a   Seltmann, Martin ^a   Ropers, Dieter ^a   Daniel, Werner G ^a   Achenbach, Stephan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

DSCT; luminal area; vessel area; window settings

Indexed keywords

ANGIOGRAPHY; BLOOD VESSELS; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; GEODESY; HEART; SURVEYING;

AREA MEASUREMENT; CORONARY ARTERIES; DUAL SOURCE; DUAL-SOURCE CT; HOUNSFIELD UNITS; INTRAVASCULAR ULTRASOUND; LUMENAL AREA; VESSEL AREA; WINDOW SETTINGS; WINDOW WIDTH;

ULTRASONICS;

ATENOLOL; GLYCERYL TRINITRATE; IOPROMIDE; METOPROLOL;

ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL DIAMETER; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY BLOOD VESSEL; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTRAVASCULAR ULTRASOUND; INTRAVENOUS CATHETER; INVASIVE PROCEDURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 79551528425     PISSN: 03638715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/RCT.0b013e3181f7cb30     Document Type: Article

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