In the search of coronary calcium

International Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 167, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 310-317

  Alexopoulos, Dimitrios ^a   Moulias, Athanasios ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF PATRAS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Coronary artery disease; Coronary atherosclerosis; Coronary calcium; Imaging; Invasive; Non invasive

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM;

ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ANGIOSCOPY; CARDIOVASCULAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CORONARY ARTERY CALCIUM SCORE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTRON BEAM TOMOGRAPHY; FLUOROSCOPY; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INTRAVASCULAR ULTRASOUND; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; NON INVASIVE MEASUREMENT; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RELIABILITY; REVIEW; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SPIRAL COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

ANIMALS; CALCIUM; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING, CINE; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; VASCULAR CALCIFICATION;

EID: 84879099344     PISSN: 01675273     EISSN: 18741754     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijcard.2012.06.051     Document Type: Review

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