Scoring of coronary artery calcium scans: History, assumptions, current limitations, and future directions

Atherosclerosis

Volumn 239, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 109-117

  Alluri, Krishna ^a,b   Joshi, Parag H ^b   Henry, Travis S ^c   Blumenthal, Roger S ^b   Nasir, Khurram ^b,d   Blaha, Michael J ^b  

^a USA   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d Baptist Health South Florida   (United States)

Author keywords

Agatston score; Coronary artery calcium; EBCT; Mass score; MDCT; Volume score

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; CALCINOSIS; CARDIOLOGY; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY BLOOD VESSEL; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; RADIOGRAPHY; RISK ASSESSMENT; STANDARDS;

ALGORITHMS; CALCINOSIS; CARDIOLOGY; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY VESSELS; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RISK ASSESSMENT; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84920896602     PISSN: 00219150     EISSN: 18791484     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atherosclerosis.2014.12.040     Document Type: Review

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