Fully automated derivation of coronary artery calcium scores and cardiovascular risk assessment from contrast medium-enhanced coronary CT angiography studies

European Radiology

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 650-657

  Ebersberger, Ullrich ^a,b   Eilot, Dov ^c   Goldenberg, Roman ^c   Lev, Alon ^c   Spears, J Reid ^a   Rowe, Garrett W ^a   Gallagher, Nicholas Y ^a   Halligan, William T ^a   Blanke, Philipp ^a,d   Makowski, Marcus R ^e   Krazinski, Aleksander W ^a   Silverman, Justin R ^a   Bamberg, Fabian ^f   Leber, Alexander W ^g   Hoffmann, Ellen ^b   Schoepf, U Joseph ^a,f  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b Heart Center Munich Bogenhausen   (Germany)

^c Rcadia Medical Imaging Ltd   (Israel)

^d UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^e CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

^f LUDWIG MAXIMILIANS UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^g UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Automated system; Computed tomography; Coronary artery calcium; Coronary CT angiography; Image processing

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM; IOPROMIDE;

ADULT; AGATSTON SCORE; ALGORITHM; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY CALCIFICATION; CORONARY ARTERY CALCIUM SCORE; DEMOGRAPHY; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; GENDER; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGING SOFTWARE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; RACE; RADIATION ATTENUATION; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT;

EID: 84876153264     PISSN: 09387994     EISSN: 14321084     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00330-012-2652-6     Document Type: Article

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