Assessment of coronary artery calcium using dual-energy subtraction digital radiography

Journal of Digital Imaging

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 129-136

  Mafi, John N ^a   Fei, Baowei ^b   Roble, Sharon ^b   Dota, Anthony ^a   Katrapati, Prashanth ^a   Bezerra, Hiram G ^b   Wang, Hesheng ^b   Wang, Wei ^a   Ciancibello, Leslie ^b   Costa, Marco ^b   Simon, Daniel I ^b   Orringer, Carl E ^b   Gilkeson, Robert C ^b  

^a CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS OF CLEVELAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Calcification detection; Cardiac imaging; Chest CT; Chest radiographs; Computed tomography; Coronary arteries; Coronary calcifications; Coronary disease; Digital radiography; Digital subtraction radiography; Dual energy scanned projection; Dual energy subtraction; Radiography; ROC based analysis

Indexed keywords

BIOMINERALIZATION; BLOOD VESSELS; BONE; CALCIFICATION (BIOCHEMISTRY); CALCIUM; CARDIOLOGY; DIAGNOSIS; DISEASES; HEART; RADIOGRAPHY;

CALCIFICATION DETECTIONS; CARDIAC IMAGING; CHEST CT; CHEST RADIOGRAPHS; CORONARY ARTERIES; CORONARY CALCIFICATIONS; CORONARY DISEASE; DIGITAL RADIOGRAPHY; DIGITAL SUBTRACTION RADIOGRAPHIES; DUAL-ENERGY SCANNED PROJECTIONS; DUAL-ENERGY SUBTRACTION; ROC-BASED ANALYSIS;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; CALCINOSIS; CASE CONTROL STUDY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DIGITAL SUBTRACTION ANGIOGRAPHY; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PILOT STUDY; RADIOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ANGIOGRAPHY, DIGITAL SUBTRACTION; CALCINOSIS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PILOT PROJECTS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 84861303003     PISSN: 08971889     EISSN: 1618727X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10278-011-9385-y     Document Type: Article

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