Critical Review of Imaging Approaches for the Diagnosis and Prognosis of CAD

Novel Techniques for Imaging the Heart: Cardiac MR and CT

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 148-168

  Hachamovitch, Rory ^a   Beller, George A ^b  

^a University of Virginia Health Sciences Center ^*

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

Anatomic validation of diagnostic testing; Identifying treatment benefit; Limitations to use of diagnostic metrics; Normalcy rate; Relationship between risk and the extent and severity of imaging results; Risk of adverse events after a normal imaging study; Understanding and estimating post test risk; Understanding the limitations of meta analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 84889839511     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444300598.ch10     Document Type: Chapter

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