A new frontier in atherosclerotic coronary imaging

The Lancet

Volumn 383, Issue 9918, 2014, Pages 674-675

  Thomas, Gregory S ^a   Haraszti, Reka A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18; SODIUM FLUORIDE F 18;

ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTERY RUPTURE; ATHEROSCLEROTIC PLAQUE; CALCIFICATION; CARDIAC GATED IMAGING; CARDIAC IMAGING; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; COMPUTER ASSISTED EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY; CORONARY ARTERY ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CORONARY ARTERY CALCIUM SCORE; ECHOGRAPHY; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; MYOCARDIAL PERFUSION IMAGING; NOTE; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STABLE ANGINA PECTORIS;

EID: 84894153873     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: 1474547X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(13)61911-X     Document Type: Note

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