The one-stop shop offering both coronary anatomy and myocardial perfusion: May well be opening soon, around the corner

JACC: Cardiovascular Imaging

Volumn 5, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 1112-1114

  Wijns, William ^a  

^a OLV HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

Author keywords

computed tomography; coronary artery disease; diagnostic test; FFR; myocardial ischemia

Indexed keywords

ANATOMICAL VARIATION; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY STENT; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; FRACTIONAL FLOW RESERVE; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HEART MUSCLE PERFUSION; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; NOTE; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84869128024     PISSN: 1936878X     EISSN: 18767591     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcmg.2012.10.001     Document Type: Editorial

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