Coronary artery calcium scoring: Influence of adaptive statistical iterative reconstruction using 64-MDCT

International Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 167, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 2932-2937

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

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Adaptive iterative reconstruction; Agatston score; Cardiac computed tomography; Coronary calcium

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM;

AGATSTON SCORE; AGED; AORTA ROOT; ARTICLE; CALCIUM MASS; CARDIOVASCULAR PARAMETERS; CLASSIFICATION ALGORITHM; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; CORONARY ARTERY; CORONARY ARTERY CALCIUM SCORE; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FEMALE; FILTERED BACK PROJECTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; ITERATIVE RECONSTRUCTION ALGORITHM; MALE; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; NOISE REDUCTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; VOLUME SCORE;

ADAPTIVE ITERATIVE RECONSTRUCTION; AGATSTON SCORE; CARDIAC COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORONARY CALCIUM;

AGED; CALCIUM; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; VASCULAR CALCIFICATION;

EID: 84883805766     PISSN: 01675273     EISSN: 18741754     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijcard.2012.08.003     Document Type: Article

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