Coronary artery and thoracic calcium on noncontrast thoracic CT scans: Comparison of ungated and gated examinations in patients from the COPD Gene cohort

Journal of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 113-118

  Budoff, Matthew J ^a   Nasir, Khurram ^a   Kinney, Gregory L ^b   Hokanson, John E ^b   Barr, R Graham ^c   Steiner, Robert ^d   Nath, Hrudaya ^e   Lopez Garcia, Carmen ^a   Black Shinn, Jennifer ^b   Casaburi, Richard ^a  

^a UCLA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^c Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^d TEMPLE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

Author keywords

Coronary artery calcium; CT; Quantification; Untagged studies

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM;

ARTERY CALCIFICATION; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL EVALUATION; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; GATED IMAGING; GENETIC EPIDEMIOLOGY; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PREDICTION; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THORACIC AORTA;

AORTA, THORACIC; AORTIC DISEASES; CALCINOSIS; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PULMONARY DISEASE, CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE; RADIOGRAPHY, THORACIC; RISK ASSESSMENT; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 79953721924     PISSN: 19345925     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcct.2010.11.002     Document Type: Article

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