3D fusion of functional cardiac magnetic resonance imaging and computed tomography coronary angiography: Accuracy and added clinical value

Investigative Radiology

Volumn 46, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 331-340

  Donati, Olivio F ^a   Alkadhi, Hatem ^a,b   Scheffel, Hans ^a   Kuehnel, Caroline ^c   Hennemuth, Anja ^c   Wyss, Christophe ^a   Azemaj, Naim ^a   Plass, André ^a   Kozerke, Sebastian ^d   Falk, Volkmar ^a   Leschka, Sebastian ^a   Stolzmann, Paul ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c FRAUNHOFER MEVIS   (Germany)

^d ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

computed tomography; coronary artery disease; image fusion; magnetic resonance imaging; myocardial perfusion

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE; GADOBUTROL; IOPROMIDE; ISOSORBIDE DINITRATE; METOPROLOL; METOPROLOL TARTRATE;

ADULT; AGED; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; CARDIAC IMAGING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONVENTIONAL ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HEART MUSCLE PERFUSION; HUMAN; IMAGE DISPLAY; IMAGE FUSION; IMAGE QUALITY; MALE; OBSERVER VARIATION; PHARMACOLOGIC STRESS TESTING; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SINGLE DRUG DOSE; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

EID: 79954915340     PISSN: 00209996     EISSN: 15360210     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/RLI.0b013e3182056caf     Document Type: Article

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