Coronary Artery Calcium Scoring on Different 64-detector Scanners Using a Low-tube Voltage (80 kVp)

Academic Radiology

Volumn 19, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 1402-1407

  Fujioka, Chikako ^a   Funama, Yoshinori ^b   Kiguchi, Masao ^a   Ishifuro, Minoru ^a   Kihara, Yasuki ^a   Nagata, Yasushi ^a   Awai, Kazuo ^a  

^a HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KUMAMOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cardiac CT; Coronary artery calcium score; Heart; Low tube voltage; MDCT

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM;

AGATSTON SCORE; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY CALCIFICATION; CORONARY ARTERY CALCIUM SCORE; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; LOW TUBE VOLTAGE COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCIBILITY; SCORING SYSTEM; TOTAL MEAN MASS SCORE; TOTAL MEAN VOLUME SCORE;

CALCINOSIS; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; HUMANS; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RADIATION DOSAGE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84866900010     PISSN: 10766332     EISSN: 18784046     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.acra.2012.07.003     Document Type: Article

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