CT Assessment of Myocardial Perfusion and Fractional Flow Reserve

Progress in Cardiovascular Diseases

Volumn 57, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 623-631

  Hulten, Edward ^a,b   Ahmadi, Amir ^c   Blankstein, Ron ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences and the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Atherosclerosis; Computed tomography; Coronary; Coronary artery disease; Myocardial perfusion imaging

Indexed keywords

ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; AREA UNDER THE CURVE; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROTIC PLAQUE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CORONARY ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; CORONARY ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; CORONARY COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY ANGIOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; FRACTIONAL FLOW RESERVE; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HEART MUSCLE PERFUSION; HUMAN; MYOCARDIAL PERFUSION IMAGING; PREDICTIVE VALUE; RADIOCARDIOGRAPHY; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY BLOOD VESSEL; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; PROGNOSIS; RADIOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY;

ANIMALS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY VESSELS; FRACTIONAL FLOW RESERVE, MYOCARDIAL; HUMANS; MODELS, CARDIOVASCULAR; MYOCARDIAL PERFUSION IMAGING; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROGNOSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84930046474     PISSN: 00330620     EISSN: 18731740     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pcad.2015.03.003     Document Type: Article

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