Cardiac valve calcifications on low-dose unenhanced ungated chest computed tomography: Inter-observer and inter-examination reliability, agreement and variability

European Radiology

Volumn 24, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 1557-1564

  Van Hamersvelt, Robbert W ^a   Willemink, Martin J ^a   Takx, Richard A P ^a   Eikendal, Anouk L M ^a   Budde, Ricardo P J ^a   Leiner, Tim ^a   Mol, Christian P ^b   Isgum, Ivana ^b   De Jong, Pim A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Aortic valve; Computed tomography; Mitral valve; Reproducibility; Vascular calcification

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM;

ADULT; AGED; AORTA VALVE CALCIFICATION; AORTA VALVE DISEASE; ARTICLE; CANCER SCREENING; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INTERRATER RELIABILITY; KAPPA STATISTICS; LUNG CANCER; LUNG NODULE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MITRAL VALVE AND ANNULUS CALCIFICATION; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; AORTA VALVE; AORTA VALVE STENOSIS; CALCINOSIS; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPLICATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; LUNG TUMOR; MIDDLE AGED; MULTICENTER STUDY; OBSERVER VARIATION; PATHOLOGY; RADIATION RESPONSE; RADIOGRAPHY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; REPRODUCIBILITY;

AGED; AORTIC VALVE; AORTIC VALVE STENOSIS; CALCINOSIS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; EARLY DETECTION OF CANCER; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBSERVER VARIATION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84902372336     PISSN: 09387994     EISSN: 14321084     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00330-014-3191-0     Document Type: Article

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