Technical Advances in Cardiac CT

Cardiology Clinics

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 1-8

  Achenbach, Stephan ^a   Kondo, Takeshi ^b  

^a JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b Takase Clinic   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cardiac; Computed tomography; Coronary CT angiography; Technological advances

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; CALCIFICATION; CARDIAC COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; CARDIAC IMAGING; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; COMPUTER; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; HEART RATE; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DETECTOR; RADIATION EXPOSURE; REVIEW;

ARTIFACTS; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; FORECASTING; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SOFTWARE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84856419819     PISSN: 07338651     EISSN: 15582264     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ccl.2011.11.002     Document Type: Review

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