Relative myocardial blood flow by dynamic computed tomographic perfusion imaging predicts hemodynamic significance of coronary stenosis better than absolute blood flow

Investigative Radiology

Volumn 49, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 801-807

  Kono, Atsushi K ^a   Coenen, Adriaan ^a   Lubbers, Marisa ^a   Kurata, Akira ^a   Rossi, Alexia ^a   Dharampal, Anoeshka ^a   Dijkshoorn, Marcel ^a   Van Geuns, Robert Jan ^a   Krestin, Gabriel P ^a   Nieman, Koen ^a  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Computed tomography; Fractional flow reserve; Ischemia; Myocardial perfusion

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE; IOPROMIDE;

ADULT; AGED; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; CORONARY ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; CORONARY HEMODYNAMICS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; FEMALE; FRACTIONAL FLOW RESERVE; HEART MUSCLE BLOOD FLOW; HUMAN; MALE; MYOCARDIAL PERFUSION IMAGING; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; BLOOD FLOW; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; HEMODYNAMICS; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; RADIOGRAPHY; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; REPRODUCIBILITY; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY CIRCULATION; CORONARY STENOSIS; FEMALE; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; ROC CURVE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84925941121     PISSN: 00209996     EISSN: 15360210     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/RLI.0000000000000087     Document Type: Article

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