Detection of coronary artery stenoses by low-dose, prospectively ECG-triggered, high-pitch spiral coronary CT angiography

JACC: Cardiovascular Imaging

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 328-337

  Achenbach, Stephan ^a,b   Goroll, Tobias ^a   Seltmann, Martin ^a   Pflederer, Tobias ^a   Anders, Katharina ^a   Ropers, Dieter ^a   Daniel, Werner G ^a   Uder, Michael ^a   Lell, Michael ^a   Marwan, Mohamed ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ERLANGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

computed tomography; coronary angiography; radiation; stenoses

Indexed keywords

ATENOLOL; GLYCERYL TRINITRATE; METOPROLOL;

ADULT; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SINUS RHYTHM; SPIRAL CORONARY COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY;

AGED; BODY WEIGHT; CARDIAC-GATED IMAGING TECHNIQUES; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY STENOSIS; FEMALE; GERMANY; HEART RATE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TOMOGRAPHY, SPIRAL COMPUTED;

EID: 79954562252     PISSN: 1936878X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcmg.2011.01.012     Document Type: Article

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