Coronary CT angiography-derived fractional flow reserve correlated with invasive fractional flow reserve measurements – initial experience with a novel physician-driven algorithm

European Radiology

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 1201-1207

  Baumann, Stefan ^a,b   Wang, Rui ^a,c   Schoepf, U Joseph ^a   Steinberg, Daniel H ^a   Spearman, James V ^a   Bayer, Richard R ^a   Hamm, Christian W ^d   Renker, Matthias ^a,d  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^c CAPITAL MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Coronary artery disease; Coronary CT angiography; Fractional flow reserve; Invasive coronary angiography; Myocardial ischemia

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; CORE LABORATORY; CORONARY ARTERY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; FRACTIONAL FLOW RESERVE; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; ALGORITHM; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSIOLOGY; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PROCEDURES; RADIOGRAPHY;

11-EPIVALDIVIOLIDE; SESQUITERPENE;

ALGORITHMS; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY STENOSIS; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; FRACTIONAL FLOW RESERVE, MYOCARDIAL; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SESQUITERPENES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84925490565     PISSN: 09387994     EISSN: 14321084     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00330-014-3482-5     Document Type: Article

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