Interobserver agreement for the detection of atherosclerotic plaque in coronary CT angiography: Comparison of two low-dose image acquisition protocols with standard retrospectively ECG-gated reconstruction

European Radiology

Volumn 22, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 1529-1536

  Schuhbäck, Annika ^a   Marwan, Mohamed ^b   Gauss, Sören ^b   Muschiol, Gerd ^b   Ropers, Dieter ^b   Schneider, Christian ^a   Lell, Michael ^b   Rixe, Johannes ^a   Hamm, Christian ^a   Daniel, Werner G ^b   Achenbach, Stephan ^b  

^a JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Atherosclerotic plaque; Dual source CT. Cardiac; Interobserver agreement; Keywords Coronary CTangiography

Indexed keywords

IMERON 350; IOMEPROL; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROTIC PLAQUE; CARDIAC GATED IMAGING; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; LOW ENERGY RADIATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OBSERVER VARIATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SINGLE BLIND PROCEDURE;

CARDIAC-GATED IMAGING TECHNIQUES; CONTRAST MEDIA; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; FEMALE; HUMANS; IOPAMIDOL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBSERVER VARIATION; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIATION PROTECTION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84864693527     PISSN: 09387994     EISSN: 14321084     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00330-012-2389-2     Document Type: Article

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