Current and evolving clinical applications of multidetector cardiac CT in assessment of structural heart disease

Radiology

Volumn 267, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 11-25

  Nasis, Arthur ^a   Mottram, Philip M ^a   Cameron, James D ^a   Seneviratne, Sujith K ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANNULOPLASTY; AORTA STENOSIS; CARDIAC IMAGING; CARDIAC RESYNCHRONIZATION THERAPY; CARDIOMYOPATHY; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FLUOROSCOPY; HEART ATRIUM; HEART ATRIUM APPENDAGE; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART DISEASE; HEART EJECTION FRACTION; HEART VALVE; HEART VALVE REGURGITATION; HEART VOLUME; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MEDICAL DEVICE; MITRAL VALVE PROSTHESIS; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY VEIN; REVIEW; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; TWO DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

CONTRAST MEDIA; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART DISEASES; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 84875420831     PISSN: 00338419     EISSN: 15271315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/radiol.13111196     Document Type: Review

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