Improving the relationship between coronary artery calcium score and coronary plaque burden: Addition of regional measures of coronary artery calcium distribution

Atherosclerosis

Volumn 238, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 126-131

  Tota Maharaj, Rajesh ^a,b   Al Mallah, Mouaz H ^c,d   Nasir, Khurram ^a,e   Qureshi, Waqas T ^f   Blumenthal, Roger S ^a   Blaha, Michael J ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b DANBURY HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d KING SAUD BIN ABDULAZIZ UNIVERSITY FOR HEALTH SCIENCES   (Saudi Arabia)

^e MIAMI CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^f WAKE FOREST SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Coronary artery calcium; Coronary artery disease; Coronary computed tomography angiography

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR PARAMETERS; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY CALCIUM SCORE; CORONARY PLAQUE BURDEN; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SEX DIFFERENCE; AGED; ALGORITHM; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CALCINOSIS; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORONARY BLOOD VESSEL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; IMAGE PROCESSING; PATHOLOGY; PLAQUE, ATHEROSCLEROTIC; RADIOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

AGED; ALGORITHMS; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CALCINOSIS; CALCIUM; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY VESSELS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PLAQUE, ATHEROSCLEROTIC; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84913528650     PISSN: 00219150     EISSN: 18791484     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atherosclerosis.2014.11.008     Document Type: Article

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