Impact of coronary artery calcium characteristics on accuracy of CT angiography

JACC: Cardiovascular Imaging

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 49-58

  Kruk, Mariusz ^a   Noll, Dariusz ^a   Achenbach, Stefan ^b,c   Mintz, Gary S ^d   Prȩgowski, Jerzy ^a   Kaczmarska, Edyta ^a   Kryczka, Karolina ^a   Pracoń, Radosław ^a   Dzielińska, Zofia ^a   Śleszycka, Justyna ^a   Witkowski, Adam ^a   Demkow, Marcin ^a   Ruzyłło, Witold ^a   Kȩpka, Cezary ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF CARDIOLOGY   (Poland)

^b JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^d CARDIOVASCULAR RESEARCH FOUNDATION   (United States)

Author keywords

computed tomography; coronary angiography; coronary artery disease; intravascular ultrasound

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM; IOMEPROL;

ADULT; AGED; ANGIOGRAPHY; ARTERY DIAMETER; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTRAST TO NOISE RATIO; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY CALCIFICATION; CORONARY ARTERY CALCIUM SCORE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTRAVASCULAR ULTRASOUND; INTRAVENOUS CATHETER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UROGRAPHY; CALCINOSIS; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; ECHOGRAPHY; FOLLOW UP; INTERVENTIONAL ULTRASONOGRAPHY; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PROCEDURES; RADIOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

CALCINOSIS; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL;

EID: 84892507535     PISSN: 1936878X     EISSN: 18767591     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcmg.2013.07.013     Document Type: Article

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