Quantification of coronary artery calcium on the basis of dual-energy coronary CT angiography

Radiology

Volumn 264, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 700-707

  Schwarz, Florian ^a,b   Nance, John W ^a,c   Ruzsics, Balazs ^a,d   Bastarrika, Gorka ^a,e   Sterzik, Alexander ^a   Schoepf, U Joseph ^a,b  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b LUDWIG MAXIMILIANS UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d ROYAL LIVERPOOL AND BROADGREEN UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS NHS TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF NAVARRA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; AGED; ALGORITHM; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY CALCIUM SCORING; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DUAL ENERGY CORONARY COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; FALSE POSITIVE RESULT; FEMALE; HISTOGRAM; HUMAN; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MALE; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SCORING SYSTEM; VIRTUAL NONCONTRAST MATERIAL ENHANCEMENT; VIRTUAL REALITY;

EID: 84865408803     PISSN: 00338419     EISSN: 15271315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/radiol.12112455     Document Type: Article

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