Coronary calcium screening with dual-source CT: reliability of ungated, high-pitch chest CT in comparison with dedicated calcium-scoring CT

European Radiology

Volumn 26, Issue 6, 2016, Pages 1521-1528

  Hutt, Antoine ^a   Duhamel, Alain ^b   Deken, Valérie ^b   Faivre, Jean Baptiste ^a   Molinari, Francesco ^c   Remy, Jacques ^a   Remy Jardin, Martine ^a  

^a UNIV LILLE   (France)

^b UNIV LILLE   (France)

^c CENTRE HOSPITALIER DE TOURCOING   (France)

Author keywords

Calcium score; Dual source CT; High pitch; Ungated CT

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY CALCIFICATION; CORONARY ARTERY CALCIUM SCORE; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; DUAL SOURCE COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; FALSE NEGATIVE RESULT; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART RATE; HIGH PITCH CHEST COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; INTERSTITIAL LUNG DISEASE; LUNG NODULE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PNEUMONIA; PNEUMOTHORAX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SMOKING; AGED; CALCINOSIS; CARDIAC GATED IMAGING; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY BLOOD VESSEL; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; PROCEDURES; RADIATION DOSE; REPRODUCIBILITY; RISK FACTOR; VERY ELDERLY; X-RAY COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CALCINOSIS; CARDIAC-GATED IMAGING TECHNIQUES; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY VESSELS; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RADIATION DOSAGE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RISK FACTORS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84940875592     PISSN: 09387994     EISSN: 14321084     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00330-015-3978-7     Document Type: Article

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