Quantifying coronary artery calcification from a contrast-enhanced cardiac computed tomography angiography study

European Heart Journal Cardiovascular Imaging

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 210-215

  Mylonas, Ilias ^a   Alam, Mohammed ^a   Amily, Noor ^a   Small, Gary ^a   Chen, Li ^a   Yam, Yeung ^a   Hibbert, Benjamin ^a   Chow, Benjamin J W ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA HEART INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Contrast enhanced CTA; Coronary artery calcium

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGATSTON SCORE; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; ASCENDING AORTA; ATTENUATION; CARDIAC GATED IMAGING; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONE BEAM COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; CONTRAST ENHANCED CARDIAC COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY CALCIFICATION; CORONARY ARTERY CALCIUM SCORE; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RISK FACTOR;

CONTRAST-ENHANCED CTA; CORONARY ARTERY CALCIUM;

CARDIAC-GATED IMAGING TECHNIQUES; CONTRAST MEDIA; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY STENOSIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TRIIODOBENZOIC ACIDS; VASCULAR CALCIFICATION;

EID: 84892940301     PISSN: 20472404     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ehjci/jet144     Document Type: Article

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