Reliability analysis of visual ranking of coronary artery calcification on low-dose CT of the thorax for lung cancer screening: comparison with ECG-gated calcium scoring CT

International Journal of Cardiovascular Imaging

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 81-87

  Kim, Yoon Kyung ^a   Sung, Yon Mi ^a   Cho, So Hyun ^a   Park, Young Nam ^a   Choi, Hye Young ^a  

^a Gachon University College of Medicine   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Coronary artery calcification; Low dose CT; Lung cancer screening

Indexed keywords

ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; BLOOD VESSEL CALCIFICATION; CARDIAC GATED IMAGING; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY BLOOD VESSEL; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; EVALUATION STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INCIDENTAL FINDING; LUNG TUMOR; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; OBSERVER VARIATION; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PROCEDURES; RADIATION DOSE; RADIOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; VISION;

CARDIAC-GATED IMAGING TECHNIQUES; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY VESSELS; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENTAL FINDINGS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; OBSERVER VARIATION; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOGRAPHY, THORACIC; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; VASCULAR CALCIFICATION; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 84937197142     PISSN: 15695794     EISSN: 15730743     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10554-014-0507-8     Document Type: Article

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