Coronary artery computed tomography scanning

Circulation

Volumn 129, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 1341-1345

  De Cecco, Carlo Nicola ^a,b   Meinel, Felix G ^a,c   Chiaramida, Salvatore A ^a   Costello, Philip ^a   Bamberg, Fabian ^d   Schoepf, U Joseph ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^c LUDWIG MAXIMILIANS UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL EVALUATION; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; CORONARY COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION EXPOSURE;

CHEST PAIN; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; RADIATION DOSAGE;

CARDIAC IMAGING TECHNIQUES; CHEST PAIN; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY VESSELS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84896954180     PISSN: 00097322     EISSN: 15244539     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.113.002835     Document Type: Article

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