Assessment of calcified carotid plaque volume: Comparison of contrast-enhanced dual-energy CT angiography and native single-energy CT

American Journal of Roentgenology

Volumn 196, Issue 6, 2011, Pages

  Watanabe, Yoshiyuki ^a,b   Nakazawa, Tetsuro ^a   Higashi, Masahiro ^a   Itoh, Toshihide ^c   Naito, Hiroaki ^a  

^a NATIONAL CEREBRAL AND CARDIOVASCULAR CENTER   (Japan)

^b OSAKA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^c Siemens Healthcare KK   (Japan)

Author keywords

Calcification; Carotid CT angiography; Dual energy CT; Quantification

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CALCIFIED CAROTID PLAQUE; CAROTID ARTERY DISEASE; CAROTID ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATIONAL STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DUAL ENERGY COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RADIATION ATTENUATION; SCORING SYSTEM; SINGLE ENERGY COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY;

AGED; ANGIOGRAPHY; CALCINOSIS; CAROTID STENOSIS; CONTRAST MEDIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 79960483503     PISSN: 0361803X     EISSN: 15463141     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2214/AJR.10.4938     Document Type: Article

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