CT coronary angiography: Impact of adapted statistical iterative reconstruction (ASIR) on coronary stenosis and plaque composition analysis

International Journal of Cardiovascular Imaging

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 719-724

  Fuchs, Tobias A ^a   Fiechter, Michael ^a,b   Gebhard, Cathérine ^a   Stehli, Julia ^a   Ghadri, Jelena R ^a   Kazakauskaite, Egle ^a   Herzog, Bernhard A ^a   Husmann, Lars ^a   Gaemperli, Oliver ^a   Kaufmann, Philipp A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Adaptive statistical iterative reconstruction (ASIR); Coronary plaque; High definition coronary CT angiography

Indexed keywords

ADAPTED STATISTICAL ITERATIVE RECONSTRUCTION; ADULT; ALGORITHM; ARTERY DIAMETER; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT REDUCTION; ATHEROSCLEROTIC PLAQUE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CORONARY ARTERY ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CORONARY ARTERY CALCIFICATION; CORONARY ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIGITAL FILTERING; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; LABORATORY AUTOMATION; MALE; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; VALIDATION PROCESS;

AGED; ALGORITHMS; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY STENOSIS; CORONARY VESSELS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PLAQUE, ATHEROSCLEROTIC; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SOFTWARE VALIDATION;

EID: 84879553529     PISSN: 15695794     EISSN: 15730743     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10554-012-0134-1     Document Type: Article

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