Atherosclerotic plaque composition and classification identified by coronary computed tomography: Assessment of computed tomography-generated plaque maps compared with virtual histology intravascular ultrasound and histology

Circulation: Cardiovascular Imaging

Volumn 6, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 655-664

  Obaid, Daniel R ^a,b   Calvert, Patrick A ^a,b   Gopalan, Deepa ^b   Parker, Richard A ^a   Hoole, Stephen P ^b   West, Nick E J ^a,b   Goddard, Martin ^b   Rudd, James H F ^b   Bennett, Martin R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b PAPWORTH HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Atherosclerosis; Imaging

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROTIC PLAQUE; AUTOPSY; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INTRAVASCULAR ULTRASOUND; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION ATTENUATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; VALIDATION PROCESS;

ATHEROSCLEROSIS; IMAGING;

CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY VESSELS; FIBROSIS; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; NECROSIS; PLAQUE, ATHEROSCLEROTIC; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RISK FACTORS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL; VASCULAR CALCIFICATION;

EID: 84884497908     PISSN: 19419651     EISSN: 19420080     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/CIRCIMAGING.112.000250     Document Type: Article

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