In vivo CT detection of lipid-rich coronary artery atherosclerotic plaques using quantitative histogram analysis: A head to head comparison with IVUS

Atherosclerosis

Volumn 215, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 110-115

  Marwan, Mohamed ^a,b   Taher, Mohamed Awad ^b   El Meniawy, Khaled ^b   Awadallah, Hany ^b   Pflederer, Tobias ^a   Schuhbäck, Annika ^a   Ropers, Dieter ^a   Daniel, Werner G ^a   Achenbach, Stephan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^b AIN SHAMS UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

Author keywords

CT; IVUS; Plaque characterisation

Indexed keywords

IOPROMIDE; LIPID;

ADULT; AGED; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROTIC PLAQUE; CAROTID ARTERY BIFURCATION; CATHETER; CHANNEL GATING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY; CORONARY ARTERY ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CORONARY BLOOD VESSEL; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GOLD STANDARD; HISTOGRAM; HUMAN; INTRAVASCULAR ULTRASOUND; MALE; METHODOLOGY; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY VESSELS; FEMALE; FIBROSIS; HUMANS; LIPIDS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PLAQUE, ATHEROSCLEROTIC; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 79952105108     PISSN: 00219150     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atherosclerosis.2010.12.006     Document Type: Article

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