Role of cardiac multidetector computed tomography beyond coronary angiography

Circulation Journal

Volumn 79, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 712-720

  Sato, Akira ^a   Aonuma, Kazutaka ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

Author keywords

Multidetector computed tomography; Myocardial perfusion imaging; Vulnerable plaque

Indexed keywords

TROPONIN T;

ACUTE CORONARY SYNDROME; ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ATHEROSCLEROTIC PLAQUE; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; CONTRAST TO NOISE RATIO; CORONARY ARTERY CALCIUM SCORE; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY VULNERABLE PLAQUE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FRACTIONAL FLOW RESERVE; HEART INFARCTION; HEART MUSCLE PERFUSION; HUMAN; INTRAVASCULAR ULTRASOUND; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; MYOCARDIAL PERFUSION IMAGING; NAPKIN RING SIGN; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION; PREDICTIVE VALUE; REVIEW; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; STABLE ANGINA PECTORIS; UNSTABLE ANGINA PECTORIS; PROCEDURES; RADIOGRAPHY;

CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; HUMANS; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PLAQUE, ATHEROSCLEROTIC;

EID: 84925680019     PISSN: 13469843     EISSN: 13474820     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1253/circj.CJ-15-0102     Document Type: Review

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