Assessment of thoracic aortic elasticity: A preliminary study using electrocardiographically gated dual-source CT

European Radiology

Volumn 21, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 1564-1572

  Li, Ning ^a   Beck, Thomas ^b   Chen, Jiuhong ^c   Biermann, Christina ^b   Guo, Lijun ^a   Sun, Haitao ^a   Gao, Fei ^a   Liu, Cheng ^a  

^a SHANDONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b SIEMENS AG   (Germany)

^c SIEMENS LTD   (China)

Author keywords

Age dependent; Dual source CT; ECG gating; Elasticity; Thoracic aorta

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTERY DIAMETER; ARTICLE; ASCENDING AORTA; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CARDIOVASCULAR PARAMETERS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DESCENDING AORTA; ELASTICITY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GROUPS BY AGE; HUMAN; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSE WAVE; RR INTERVAL; THORACIC AORTA;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; AORTA, THORACIC; ELASTICITY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SOFTWARE VALIDATION; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 79959379990     PISSN: 09387994     EISSN: 14321084     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00330-011-2077-7     Document Type: Article

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