The incremental value of coronary artery calcium scores to myocardial single photon emission computer tomography in risk assessment

Journal of Nuclear Cardiology

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 700-711

  Hacker, Marcus ^a   Becker, Christoph ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b LUDWIG MAXIMILIANS UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

CALCIUM;

ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROTIC PLAQUE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; COMPARATIVE EFFECTIVENESS; CORONARY ARTERY ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CORONARY ARTERY CALCIFICATION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE MARKER; HEART PERFUSION; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MYOCARDIAL PERFUSION IMAGING; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SCORING SYSTEM; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; SURVIVAL TIME;

ALGORITHMS; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CALCINOSIS; CALCIUM; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY VESSELS; HUMANS; MYOCARDIAL PERFUSION IMAGING; RISK ASSESSMENT; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 80052523029     PISSN: 10713581     EISSN: 15326551     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12350-011-9384-x     Document Type: Article

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